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Ronald L. Phillips was born in 1940 in the United States.
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Ronald Phillips
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He completed his Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery degrees from Purdue University. After completing his master"s degree, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. After completing his Doctor of Philosophy, he completed his postdoctoral training at Cornell University.
Career
Since 1967, he has been a professor at the University of Minnesota. Officially retiring in 2010, he is now Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. Phillips was the first to generate whole corn plants from cells grown in culture, which laid the foundation for, and sparked, a new industry, using cell-culture methods to genetically modify corn plants and other cereals.
The corn cell line which is most widely used for genetic modification of corn has greatly accelerated the improvement of corn, as food, feed and fuel.
His research program at the University of Minnesota was one of the early programs in modern plant biotechnology related to agriculture. in the Phillips laboratory have further led to the identification of cells and plants with increased levels of essential amino acids and the development of an efficient deoxyribonucleic acid sequence mapping system used by plant scientists in genomics research. In 2006/7, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture along with Michel A. J. Georges of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".
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