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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
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- Ending world hunger. The promise of biotechnology and the threat of antiscience zealotry. (2000) (324)
- Feeding a Hungry World (2007) (275)
- Feeding a world of 10 billion people: The miracle ahead (2002) (200)
- Contributions of Conventional Plant Breeding to Food Production (1983) (199)
- Wheat breeding and its impact on world food supply (1968) (185)
- Impacts of breeding on international collaborative wheat improvement (2006) (164)
- Sixty-two years of fighting hunger: personal recollections (2007) (138)
- Wheat In The Third World (1982) (111)
- Applying innovations and new technologies for international collaborative wheat improvement (2006) (101)
- The Green Revolution Revisited and The Road Ahead 1 (2000) (92)
- Feeding a world of ten billion people: A 21 st century challenge (2005) (82)
- Quality soil management or soil quality management : performance versus semantics (2003) (82)
- A Fertilizer‐Based Green Revolution for Africa (2015) (38)
- FERTILIZER: TO NOURISH INFERTILE SOIL THAT FEEDS A FERTILE POPULATION THAT CROWDS A FRAGILE WORLD (1993) (37)
- Mobilising Science and Technology to Get Agriculture Moving in Africa (1995) (34)
- CIMMYT international wheat breeding (2002) (31)
- Registration of ‘Yecora Rojo’ Wheat (1985) (30)
- Feeding a World of 10 Billion People: The Tva/Ifdc Legacy (2003) (22)
- Where Next for Genome Sequencing? (2006) (21)
- The utilization of collections in plant breeding and production. (1970) (20)
- Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad: In Balance With Nature — A Biological Myth (1972) (20)
- Mexican wheat production and its role in the epidemiology of stem rust in North America (1954) (19)
- II. THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ON MEXICAN WHEAT PRODUCTION (1958) (19)
- Feeding a world of 10 billion people: our 21st century challenge. (2008) (18)
- The green revolution, peace and humanity : speech delivered upon receipt of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Oslo, Norway. December 11, 1970 (1972) (17)
- International Agricultural Research (2004) (17)
- Agricultural Biotechnology in China: Origins and Prospects (2007) (13)
- The Green Revolution: For Bread and Peace (1971) (13)
- Challenges for global food and fiber production. (1988) (11)
- The Green Revolution--Its Origins and Contributions to World Agriculture (2003) (11)
- Registration of Anza wheat. (1984) (10)
- Genetic Male Sterility in Wheat Breeding (1967) (9)
- Approaches to breed wheat for wide adaptation, yield potential, rust resistance and drought tolerance (1997) (9)
- Norman E. Borlaug: Civilization's Future: A Call for International Granaries (1973) (9)
- Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Increased Crop Productivity , Enhanced Human Health and Sustained Soil Fertility (2002) (8)
- World food security and the legacy of Canadian wheat scientist R. Glenn Anderson (1992) (8)
- Prospects for World Agriculture in the Twenty-First Century (2004) (8)
- Lighting fires at the grass roots (1992) (7)
- Variation and Variability of Fusarium lini. (1945) (7)
- BASIC CONCEPTS WHICH INFLUENCE THE CHOICE OF METHODS FOR USE IN BREEDING FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE IN CROSS-POLLINATED AND SELF-POLLINATED CROP PLANTS* (1966) (7)
- The Green Revolution: Can We Make It Meet Expectations? (1977) (6)
- Hybrid wheats : their development and food potential (1967) (6)
- Biotech Can Feed 8 Billion (2004) (6)
- STRIPE RUST RESISTANT MUTANTS OBTAINED FROM IRRADIATION OF GABO WHEAT (1956) (5)
- Norman Borlaug on World Hunger (1997) (5)
- How to Feed the 21st Century? The Answer is Science and Technology (1999) (5)
- The Green Revolution-An Approach to Agricultural Development and Some of its Economic Implications (1973) (5)
- Accelerating agricultural research and production in the third world: A scientist's viewpoint (1986) (4)
- Changing Times and Directions (2005) (3)
- Comprar The Fertilizer Encyclopedia | Vasant Gowariker | 9780470410349 | Wiley (2009) (3)
- Results of the first international spring wheat yield nursery, 1964-1965 (1968) (3)
- CIANO-LIN: A NEW CULTIVAR OF LINOLEIC SAFFLOWER (2011) (3)
- The Unfinished Green Revolution—The Future Role of Science and Technology in Feeding the Developing World (2012) (3)
- Norman E. Borlaug: the green revolution, peace and humanity: speech delivered upon receipt of the 1970 Nobel Prize, Oslo Norway, 1970 (1972) (3)
- Results of the third Near East American Spring Wheat Yield Nursery, 1963-1965 (1966) (2)
- Seeds of plenty, seeds of sorrow (1992) (2)
- In defence of DDT and other pesticides (2012) (2)
- The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century (2001) (2)
- A survey on stem rust resistance in the USDA world durum collection and in CIMMYT durum breeding lines. (1970) (1)
- Norman Borlaug 1914 – 2009 (2014) (1)
- Results of the fourth Inter-American Spring Wheat Yield Nursery 1963-1964 (1967) (1)
- Water and agriculture: a vision on research and development in the XXI century. (2000) (1)
- Achieving sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: lessons from experience. (2004) (1)
- Biotech Can Feed 8 Billion in the Next Century (1999) (1)
- Statement on agricultural chemicals. (1972) (1)
- Preliminary report of the second (2) Cooperative Near East-American Wheat Yield Nursery grown during 1962-63. (1964) (1)
- Flag smut of Wheat in Mexico. (1946) (1)
- Genetic Improvement of Crop Foods (1972) (1)
- CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE MEJORAMIENTO DE MAIZ Y TRIGO INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER (2012) (0)
- Food Production, the Human Population Monster, and the Morale and Professional Responsibilities of Agricultural Scientists (1996) (0)
- Journal of Animal andFeed Sciences, 11,2002, 1-18 (2002) (0)
- American Society of Agronomy Crop Science Society of America Soil Science Society of America (2011) (0)
- Report of the wheat stem rust conference at University Farm, St. Paul, Minnesota, November 17-18, 1950. (1950) (0)
- Trade and Development – Proceedings of the Winter 1986 Meeting of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (2009) (0)
- The Ohio State University Commencement Address by Norman E. Borlaug, Winter 1981 (1981) (0)
- FROM THE GREEN TO THE GENE REVOLUTION: A 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGE (PowerPoint Presentation) (2005) (0)
- Seeds and global politics (1984) (0)
- Man-made chemicals and our milieu interieur: A preliminary report from the special commission on internal pollution (1975) (0)
- Rural women and service providers benefit from PHAP (2014) (0)
- Results of the third international spring wheat yield nursery, 1966-67. (1970) (0)
- Breeding of chickpea varieties in three regions of Mexico. (1960) (0)
- Dedication: Orville A. Vogel Wheat Breeder, Agronomist, Inventor (2011) (0)
- INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS: A NEGLECTED BREED (2007) (0)
- Methods employed and results obtained in breeding wheat in Mexico. (1950) (0)
- Feeding the Hungry (2008) (0)
- Plant Patents and Agriculture (2012) (0)
- Obituary - Dr. Norman E. Borlaug (2009) (0)
- The Green Revolution: The Role of CIMMYT and What Lies Ahead (1986) (0)
- Patronato Oro C2008, durum wheat with industrial quality for northwestern Mexico (2012) (0)
- FROM THE GREEN REVOLUTION TO THE GENE REVOLUTION; OUR CHALLANGE OF THE 21 ST . CENTURY* (2006) (0)
- Preliminar report of the results of the first (1) Cooperative Near East-American Spring Wheat Yield Nursery (1964) (0)
- The human population monster (1978) (0)
- Hunger, poverty and development: Life and work of Sartaj Aziz (2000) (0)
- Agricultural Science and the Public1 (1973) (0)
- Registration of ‘INIA 66R’ Wheat (1985) (0)
- Wheats from world collection resistant to rusts. (1952) (0)
- Food and population: the unequal equation. (1982) (0)
- No . 3 July 1967 HYBRID WHEATS : · Their Development and Food Potential (2013) (0)
- THE WORLD FOOD PRIZE 2008 (2008) (0)
- Methods by which wheat production can be increased in Mexico. (1949) (0)
- Reaction to Karnal bunt under artificial inoculation of advanced bread wheat lines selected for cultivation in the humid high lands of Jalisco , Mexico (2015) (0)
- Registration of ‘Portola’ Wheat (1985) (0)
- THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH APPRECIATES THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE REVIEWERS NAMED BELOW (2015) (0)
- Reaction to Karnal bunt under artificial inoculation of advanced bread wheat lines selected for cultivation in the humid high lands of Jalisco , Mexico (2015) (0)
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