Elizabeth E. Hood is a plant geneticist and the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University.
In her masters she switched to botany, studying the biochemistry of a cyanobacteria (Anabaena variabilis).
[3] After completing her masters, she moved to Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied the natural plant genetic engineering capabilities of Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a PhD student, and studied with Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley.
[5] During her time at Washington University in St. Louis, Elizabeth Hood created the Agrobacterium strain EHA101, which is widely used in plant transformation.
[9] 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.