A 30-year-old plant pathologist named Norman Borlaug traveled to Mexico in 1944 to help fight a stem rust epidemic that had caused widespread famine.

30岁的植物病理学家诺曼·博洛格(Norman Borlaug) 1944年到墨西哥帮助抵御一种引发大面积饥荒的秆锈传染病。

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Joe Chappell, a plant pathologist from the University of Kentucky, met Joseph Noel, a biologist and professor at Salk.

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Born on a farm in northeast Iowa in 1914, Norman Borlaug became a plant pathologist who, while working among the poorest farmers in Mexico in the 1940s and 50s, developed a new "miracle wheat" which was able to resist disease and triple the yield.

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