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Bruce Alberts
Dan
Burkhardt
France A. Córdova
William
H. Danforth
Brady J.
Deaton
Hugh Grant
Richard
Herman
David W.
Kemper
Alex F.
McCalla
John
F. McDonnell
Philip
Needleman
Peter H.
Raven
Alfonso
Romo Garza
P. Roy
Vagelos
Robert L.
Virgil
Mark S.
Wrighton
Usha
Barwale Zehr
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Board of Trustees
Usha Barwale Zehr, Ph.D.
Joint Director of Research
Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company
In addition to her position as
Joint Director of Research at
Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds, Usha
Barwale Zehr is Deputy Director
of Biotechnology. She is also
director of the Mahyco Research
Foundation.
Zehr received her Ph.D in
agronomy from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in
1987. She held positions as a
researcher at the University of
Illinois from 1983 to 1990. From
1991-1996 she was a geneticist
at Purdue University, studying
sorghum and millet.
Her research interests focus on
the application of plant
biotechnology for improving
agricultural production. During
her graduate and post-graduate
studies, she worked in the area
of tissue culture and
transformation. Her group at the
University of Illinois was the
first to develop a system for
soybean regeneration. As a
result of her work at Purdue
University, the first transgenic
sorghum plant was produced. Her
work in plant biotechnology is
aimed toward implementing
emerging technologies in the
developing world.
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