Genetic Engineering of Plants Agricultural Research Opportunities and Policy Concerns (1984) / Chapter Skim
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Policy and Institutional Considerations
Policy and Institutional Considerations
Pages 53-59
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George A Keyworth Science Adviser to the President The application of genetic engineering to agricultural problems is not simply a matter of cleveloping appropriate vectors and cell culture techniques.
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The majority of the research funcled by ARS is targeted to specific problems. Through the Hatch Act, USDA also prov~cles tunas to land grant universities for partial support of the agricultural research programs in the 50 states and territories.
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at sustaining effective relations with the agricultural community has, over the last few decades, contributed to the declining association of agricuitural research with basic science." One of the costs, Lewis saicT, is that in the last four years enrollment in agricultural colleges has declined by 15 percent "at least partly because of the students' perception that the curricula in agriculturerelatecl science clo not represent the intellectually and professionally exciting studies on the cutting edge of science." Even now, according to the National Association of State Universities anct Land Grant Colleges, 13 percent of jobs in agriculture go unfilled for lack of qualified college graduates in the agricultural sciences. Lewis predicted that this percentage will continue to rise.
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Opportunities for such active collaboration should be developed, Lewis suggested, adding that the concept of "agricultural science" should be expanded to include the total scientific community. Ronald Phillips, a plant geneticist at the University of Minnesota, reminded the participants that basic research pertinent to biotechnology is performed not only at federal laboratories and land grant universities but also at private universities, research institutes, and in industry.
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The division is also attempting to increase the grant budgets for top plant biologists to enable them to support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Clutter also pointed out that the nonprofit McKnight Foundation recently awarded individual research grants and six training grants in basic plant sciences that will amount to about $5 million over the next three years.
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molecular biology will need to be able to communicate. Thus, a crucial component of the training of both future agricultural scientists and molecular biologists will be a grounding in the related disciplines.
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This is a very serious clisadvantage when they come into an industrial environment where the emphasis is on collaboration toward a common goal." FiIner suggested that students of plant molecular biology also learn plant physiology and breeding. Kenneth I
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