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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Betty Klepper Endowed Lectureship, American Society of Agronomy
  • 2001 - Wolf Prize in Agriculture for the use of recombinant DNA technology, to revolutionize plant and animal sciences, paving the way for applications to neighboring fields.
  • 2000 - Dennis R. Hoagland Award, American Society of Plant Biologists
  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Roger N. Beachy is affiliated with the National Science Foundation in the United States. Their research spans various fields of social sciences with a focus on sociology and political science.

The scientist has contributed to the study of misinformation and its impacts, an area in which they have published multiple works.

The following paper is among their recent scholarly contributions:

  • US-China science collaboration to solve global grand challenges, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Roger N. Beachy has frequently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Collaborations include work with coauthor Karen C. Seto.

Awards and honors received include:

  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, 2009
  • Betty Klepper Endowed Lectureship, American Society of Agronomy, 2006
  • Wolf Prize in Agriculture, 2001, for the use of recombinant DNA technology, to revolutionize plant and animal sciences, paving the way for applications to neighboring fields
  • Dennis R. Hoagland Award, American Society of Plant Biologists, 2000
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1987

Best Publications

  • Delay of disease development in transgenic plants that express the tobacco mosaic virus coat protein gene.

    Patricia Powell Abel;Richard S. Nelson;Barun De;Nancy Hoffmann

  • Coat Protein-Mediated Resistance Against Virus Infection

    R. N. Beachy;S. Loesch-Fries;N. E. Tumer

  • Movement Protein of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Modifies Plasmodesmatal Size Exclusion Limit

    Shmuel Wolf;William J. Lucas;Carl M. Deom;Roger N. Beachy

  • The 30-kilodalton gene product of tobacco mosaic virus potentiates virus movement.

    Carl M. Deom;Melvin J. Oliver;Roger N. Beachy

  • Viral Movement Proteins as Probes for Intracellular and Intercellular Trafficking in Plants

    Sondra G. Lazarowitz;Roger N. Beachy

  • Interaction of Tobamovirus Movement Proteins with the Plant Cytoskeleton

    Manfred Heinlein;Bernard L. Epel;Hal S. Padgett;Roger N. Beachy

  • Particle bombardment and the genetic enhancement of crops: Myths and realities

    Fredy Altpeter;Niranjan Baisakh;Roger Beachy;Ralph Bock

  • Comparative analysis of transgenic rice plants obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and particle bombardment

    Shunhong Dai;Shunhong Dai;Ping Zheng;Philippe Marmey;Shiping Zhang

  • Secondary plasmodesmata are specific sites of localization of the tobacco mosaic virus movement protein in transgenic tobacco plants.

    Biao Ding;James S. Haudenshield;Richard J. Hull;Shmuel Wolf

  • Evidence of synergism between African cassava mosaic virus and a new double-recombinant geminivirus infecting cassava in Cameroon.

    V. N. Fondong;J. S. Pita;M. E. C. Rey;A. de Kochko

  • Classification and identification of geminiviruses using sequence comparisons.

    Malla Padidam;Roger N. Beachy;Claude M. Fauquet

  • An improved rice transformation system using the biolistic method

    Liangcai Li;Rongda Qu;Alexandre de Kochko;Claude Fauquet

  • Changing patterns of localization of the tobacco mosaic virus movement protein and replicase to the endoplasmic reticulum and microtubules during infection

    M. Heinlein;H.S. Padgett;J.S. Gens;B.G. Pickard

  • Tomato leaf curl geminivirus from India has a bipartite genome and coat protein is not essential for infectivity.

    Malla Padidam;Roger N. Beachy;Claude M. Fauquet

  • Expression and inheritance of multiple transgenes in rice plants

    Lili Chen;Philippe Marmey;Nigel J. Taylor;Jean-Paul Brizard

  • Virus Tolerance, Plant Performance of Transgenic Tomato Plants Expressing Coat Protein from Tobacco Mosaic Virus

    Richard S. Nelson;Sheila M. McCormick;Sheila M. McCormick;Xavier Delannay;Philip Dubé

  • Tobacco mosaic virus infection spreads cell to cell as intact replication complexes

    Shigeki Kawakami;Yuichiro Watanabe;Roger N. Beachy

  • Replication of Tobacco Mosaic Virus on Endoplasmic Reticulum and Role of the Cytoskeleton and Virus Movement Protein in Intracellular Distribution of Viral RNA

    Paloma Más;Roger N. Beachy

  • Functional analysis of regulatory elements in a plant embryo-specific gene

    Zhang-Liang Chen;Mary A. Schuler;Roger N. Beachy

  • Tobacco mosaic virus infection induces severe morphological changes of the endoplasmic reticulum

    Christoph Reichel;Roger N. Beachy

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude M. Fauquet
Claude M. Fauquet Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Richard S. Nelson
Richard S. Nelson Oklahoma State University
Mark Yeager
Mark Yeager University of Miami
Manfred Heinlein
Manfred Heinlein University of Strasbourg
Robert T. Fraley
Robert T. Fraley Trace Genomics
Toru Fujiwara
Toru Fujiwara University of Tokyo
Mary A. Schuler
Mary A. Schuler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William J. Lucas
William J. Lucas University of California, Davis
Shmuel Wolf
Shmuel Wolf Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nina V. Fedoroff
Nina V. Fedoroff Pennsylvania State University

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