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Mary-Dell Chilton

American biologist

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born: 1939
died: 2026
age at death: 87
known for: biologist, geneticist

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Mary-Dell Chilton was an American biochemist, inventor and writer who was one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology. She performed research at Washington University in St. Louis and was a Distinguished Science Fellow at Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Chilton was notable for her discovery of the presence of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA fragments in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue in 1977.

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