Norman Borlaug has been called | | called triticale. |
When he attended the University of Minnesota | | decided to pursue plant pathology. |
After hearing about plant diseases he | | opposed Borlaug and tried to stop his work. |
The Rockefeller Foundation appointed him to | | produce a much larger crop on the same ground. |
In Mexico he developed a strain of wheat | | India and Pakistan where people were starving. |
Because of his work farmers could | | he studied forestry. |
Borlaug took his new wheat seed to | | the father of the "Green Revolution". |
He developed a new grain | | which had large heads and would not fall over. |
Some environmentalists have | | a position to work in Mexico to improve crops. |
Borlaug taught and researched | | more human lives than any other person in history. |
In 1970 he was awarded | | the Nobel Peace Prize. |
Some people credit Borlaug with saving | | at Texas A and M University for 25 years. |