THE SCIENCE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS TO AGRICULTURE

Opening Statement by Chairman Richard G. Lugar
United States Senator for Indiana

Panel I
Dr. Ralph Hardy
Past President, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council

Dr. Roger N. Beachy
President, Danforth Plant Science Center

Dr. Charles J. Arntzen
President and CEO, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

Dr. Dean DellaPenna
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
College of Agriculture and School of MedicineUniversity of Nevada

Dr. Walter Hill
Dean and Research Director, College of Agriculture, Environment & Natural Sciences,
Tuskegee University

Panel II
Dr. Bob B. Buchanan
Professor, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley

Dr. Ray A. Bressan
Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture,
Purdue University

Dr. Brian A. Larkins
Professor, Department of Plant Science, University of Arizona

Dr. John Ohlrogge
Professor, Department of Botany, Michigan State University

Dr. Neil H. Harl
Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University