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According to Kenneth G. Becker, the secretary of the Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation, Borlaug almost ran out of seeds before developing the dwarf variety of wheat that would revolutionize agriculture and win him the Nobel Peace Prize...
...theory at the time was that bigger wheat meant bigger yield,” Becker says. But Borlaug’s dwarf wheat used its energy to produce edible grain and not the inedible stalk, thus significantly increasing the yield of the crop...
...DWARF WHEAT...
Borlaug was able to convince nations around the world to adopt the dwarf wheat to supplement and even replace traditional grain crops...
...institute to be funded with state and private money. In California, activists last month submitted 1.1 million signatures--nearly twice as many as necessary--to launch a November ballot measure that would underwrite stem-cell research with $3 billion in state bonds over 10 years. The California funds would dwarf federal grants, which have stalled at about $17 million a year for human embryonic research since Bush restricted funding to a few dozen pre-existing stem-cell lines. Only 19 of those turned out to be available. Says Stanford Nobel prizewinner Paul Berg: "California is paving...