Doris Goy

Doris Alma Goy was an avid collector of plants, especially ferns, in Australia. She has named seven fern types and published a series of articles in top naturalist journals with C.T. White on Queensland ferns.

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Dr Peggy Ozais-Akins

Peggy Ozais-Akins, a professor of horticulture at UGA’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station, developed a system to make a transgenic pearl millet cell that can be quickly improved using genetic-engineering techniques and then coaxed to grow into a full, fertile plant.

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Naomi Chapman Woodroof

Naomi Chapman Woodroof was the first woman student and first woman graduate of the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, and one of the first two women in the United States to hold a degree in agriculture. She was the first woman scientist at the Georgia Experiment Station and the first state-employed plant pathologist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (later University of Georgia Tifton campus).

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