Peggy Ozias-Akins is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia known for her work on plant breeding, especially in peanuts.
[2] Ozias-Akin is known for her work using molecular tools to change how crop plants such as peanuts or millet are grown.
Her early research examined how wheat plants[3] and peanuts[4] reproduce using somatic embryogenesis, a process where a plant is formed from a single cell, a somatic embryo.
[5] She has used a species of grass, pearl millet, to examine how plant cells produce a seed that is an exact copy,[6] a process known as apomixis.
[9][10] Ozias-Akins was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.