Sentences with phrase «plant geneticist norman»

But plant geneticist Norman Borlaug developed a high - yield, disease - resistant dwarf wheat that boosted global agricultural production — the Green Revolution.

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Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.