Education
Colorado State University.
Colorado State University.
Tanksley received a bachelor"s degree in agronomy from Colorado State University in 1976 and a doctorate in genetics from the University of California-Davis in 1979. He joined the faculty at Cornell in 1985 as an associate professor of plant breeding, and became full professor in 1994. In 1993 Tanksley was the head of a Cornell research group that isolated and subsequently cloned a disease resistant gene in tomato plants.
The research is believed to be the first successful deoxyribonucleic acid map-based cloning.
National Academy of Sciences. Royal Society]
He is a member of the United States. National Academy of Sciences since 1995.