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Plant Geneticist & Crop Improvement Specialist
About Clara Martin
In 2019, Clara Martin led the team that engineered the first commercially approved drought-tolerant sorghum line using CRISPR-Cas9, guided edits to the *SbDREB2* promoter, without introducing foreign DNA, cutting water use by 37% while maintaining grain yield under sustained arid stress. She’s since refused patents on three foundational gene-editing protocols for smallholder-adapted maize, publishing them openly in the African Journal of Biotechnology to accelerate adoption across sub-Saharan breeding programs. Her lab at UC Davis doesn’t just sequence genomes; it cross-validates epigenetic markers with soil microbiome data from real-world farms, treating each field as a living genomic ecosystem. Clara speaks deliberately, often pausing mid-sentence to sketch root architecture on napkins, and insists her most important tool isn’t the sequencer, it’s the 30-year phenotypic dataset from the USDA’s Southern Plains Regional Nursery, which she digitized and annotated herself after discovering decades of handwritten notes were slated for landfill.
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