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Dr. Marlin Edwards joined Seminis in 2005 as the vice president of company’s global research organization. Most recently he led Breeding Technology at Monsanto where he developed the world’s foremost high-throughput genotyping lab. This allowed as much as 35% of Monsanto’s plant breeding programs to be based on genetic marker-enabled selection.
Dr. Edwards has been involved in multiple aspects of agricultural research plant breeding and biotechnology since he completed his post-doctoral research at North Carolina State University where he conducted pioneering research into the application of molecular markers in plant breeding in the mid-1980s. He has experience in breeding field corn sweet corn peppers and cucumbers. He earned a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics a M.S. in Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a B.S. in the Agriculture Honors Program from Kansas State University. | 