Thomas Stanton Cox is a senior scientist at The Land Institute in Salina, KS, USA. He received a Ph.D. in plant genetics from Iowa State University in 1983. He worked as a wheat geneticist for the US Department of Agriculture from 1984 to 1996, where he developed disease-resistant germplasm. His work at The Land Institute since 2000 is on breeding perennial grain crops, including perennial wheat, sorghum, and sunflower. He has published more than 90 articles in scientific journals and chapters in books. His book Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine was published in March by Pluto Press (London). He contributed to another book published this year, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn (Metropolis Books). An earlier book, Intellectual challenge of self-destruction technology (Matica hrvatska, Krizevci, 2003) was written with Marijan Jost. His environmental commentaries have appeared in newspapers across the US. He writes approximately monthly for the top tier of progressive web magazines: AlterNet, CounterPunch, and Common Dreams.
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