Brian A. Larkins

(1946- ) lived at Chester, Thayer County, and in York and Lincoln. Plant biologist, educator, considered a pioneer biotechnologist researching the regulation of seed development and the synthesis of seed-storage proteins, which can result in more nutritious grain for human consumption, author or co-author of more than 160 research articles, book chapters, and symposium papers, lectured at more than 220 professional conferences worldwide, and holds with others at least 7 patents; elected to National Academy of Sciences in 1996. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, October 20, 1996, p. B-l0 and Encyclopedia of Genetics (Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2001) pp. 657-660 and Tucson Arizona Daily Star, November 24, 2002, pp. A-1, A-13 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 4 (2003) 642.

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