Sixty-two years of fighting hunger: personal recollections
@article{Borlaug2007SixtytwoYO, title={Sixty-two years of fighting hunger: personal recollections}, author={Norman E. Borlaug}, journal={Euphytica}, year={2007}, volume={157}, pages={287-297} }
International wheat breeding began 60 years ago in the Mexican-Rockefeller Foundation Office of Special Studies. A novel technique of shuttle breeding was adopted in Mexico, enabling photoperiod sensitivity to be overcome, a pivotal step in creating internationally adapted spring wheat germplasm that eventually spread throughout the world. The high-yielding technologies developed in Mexico helped revolutionize cereal production during the 1960s and 1970s, and came to be known as the “Green…
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