Larry Smart is a professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University based at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, NY since 2009.

He is a plant geneticist and breeder working to breed improved cultivars of three crops: hemp; shrub willow for bioenergy; and hop for craft breweries in New York.  His research focuses on hybrid vigor, sex determination, and disease resistance.

He earned a BS in Biology from Cornell University, PhD in Genetics from Michigan State University, and was an NSF post-doctoral fellow at UC Davis.