This month, the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology asked four leading biotechnology researchers to answer some questions about where biotechnology is and where it is going.

• Roger Beachy, President of the Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center in St. Louis, MO;

• Steven Strauss, Director of the Tree Genetic Engineering Research Cooperative at Oregon State University;

• Perry Hackett, professor of Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Minnesota and Chief Scientific Officer of Discovery Genomics Inc.; and

• Cecil Forsberg, professor of Microbiology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, agreed to participate.

Read their answers at http://pewagbiotech.org/buzz/display.php3?StoryID=120