Dr. Johnie Jenkins Wins Verdant Partners Crop Genetics Award.Business & Biotechnology Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2000 As the research leader responsible for new genetics that have increased cotton farmers' profits $40 million annually since 1996, Dr. Johnie N. Jenkins has been named winner of the Verdant ver·dant adj. 1. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth. 2. Green. 3. Lacking experience or sophistication; naive. Partners' Crop Genetics Award for the year 2000. The announcement was made at the American Seed Trade Association Mid-winter Chicago meeting. A $10,000 agricultural scholarship in Dr. Jenkins' name has been donated by Verdant to the Crops, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas strives to be known as a "nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world." The school recently completed its "Campaign for the 21st Century," in which the university raised more than $1 billion for the school, used . At the USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. , ARS - Crop Science lab at the Mississippi State, MS, Dr. Jenkins developed and released cotton germplasm with genetic traits providing plants with resistance to boll weevil boll weevil or cotton boll weevil (bōl), cotton-eating weevil, or snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis. Probably of Mexican or Central American origin, it appeared in Texas about 1892 and spread to most cotton-growing , Heliothis, plant bug, root-knot nematodes and fusarium wilt. He has worked cooperatively with major cottonseed cottonseed seed of the cotton plant. Made into cake after oil extraction and used as feed for livestock. cottonseed cake or meal contains gossypol and causes hepatitis and degeneration of cardiac muscle. companies to test performance and efficacy of transgenic plants. Dr. Jenkins protocols have become industry and regulatory standards. The Verdant judges who nominated Dr. Jenkins include Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the Nobel Laureate of the Green Revolution; Dr. Ray A. Goldberg, Moffett Professor of Agriculture & Business, Emeritus, Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ; Dr. Owen J. Newlin, retired Senior Vice President and Director, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Verdant Partners is an international crop genetics investment banking and consulting group with offices in California, Illinois and Wisconsin. |
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