About: Kevin Folta

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Kevin M. Folta is a professor of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. From 2007 to 2010 he helped lead the project to sequence the strawberry genome, and continues to research photomorphogenesis in plants and compounds responsible for flavor in strawberries. Folta has been active as a science communicator since 2002, especially relating to biotechnology. He has faced controversy over what his critics say are his industry connections. In 2017 he was elected as a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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  • Kevin M. Folta is a professor of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. From 2007 to 2010 he helped lead the project to sequence the strawberry genome, and continues to research photomorphogenesis in plants and compounds responsible for flavor in strawberries. Folta has been active as a science communicator since 2002, especially relating to biotechnology. He has faced controversy over what his critics say are his industry connections. In 2017 he was elected as a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. (en)
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  • Edgar Spalding (en)
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  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award , Howard Hughes Medical Institute Distinguished Mentor Award , Borlaug CAST Communication Award (en)
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  • Speaking at CSICon 2016 (en)
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  • Lon S. Kaufman (en)
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  • Light control of plant traits, novel genomics approaches, science communication (en)
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  • Kevin M. Folta (en)
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  • Blue light regulation of the pea Lhcb1*4 gene in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana (en)
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  • 1998 (xsd:integer)
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  • Kevin M. Folta is a professor of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. From 2007 to 2010 he helped lead the project to sequence the strawberry genome, and continues to research photomorphogenesis in plants and compounds responsible for flavor in strawberries. Folta has been active as a science communicator since 2002, especially relating to biotechnology. He has faced controversy over what his critics say are his industry connections. In 2017 he was elected as a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. (en)
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  • Kevin Folta (en)
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  • Kevin M. Folta (en)
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