Elizabeth E. Hood

Elizabeth E. Hood is a plant geneticist and the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University. In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Education and career

Elizabeth Hood was born in 1952. She attended the University of Oklahoma earning a BA in sociology in 1974. In her masters she switched to botany, studying the biochemistry of a cyanobacteria (Anabaena variabilis). In 2004, she was hired at Arkansas State University.

Research

During her time at Washington University in St. Louis, Elizabeth Hood created the Agrobacterium strain EHA101, which is widely used in plant transformation. Her research at Arkansas State University focuses on using plants as factories to produce large quantities of enzymes and studying how plants construct cell walls. She is the Arkansas representative for the Genomes to Fields public-private consortium working to enable to accurate phenotypic prediction in corn/maize across the different environments found in thirty different US states.