We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.