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forgive my ignorance...but I thought a guy at the USDA developed the hybrid rice used in a lot of asia? Ahh - Dr. Borlaug did wheat it appears: https://en.wik
by mech422 5y ago
forgive my ignorance...but I thought a guy at the USDA developed the hybrid rice used in a lot of asia?
Ahh - Dr. Borlaug did wheat it appears:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
- nix23 5y agoYes the First generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_rice#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_rice#History
- clydethefrog 5y agoQuoting the NYT obituary: Mr. Yuan’s research arguably had effects at least as broad, since rice is the main grain for half the world’s population and wheat for a third.
- kragen 5y agoAlso Borlaug did it mostly in Mexico.
- pm90 5y agoHe (or his work) was adapted for India spurring the “Green Revolution” which was responsible for ending chronic food shortages in India. Absolutely massive impact made by one man. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/green-revolution-norman-borlaug-race-to-fight-global-hunger/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/green-r...
- mech422 5y agoYeah - I think I was confusing India and China...And wheat and rice. Sad that people that have had such a profound impact on the world, in such good ways, are relatively unknown.
- kragen 5y agoYou may be interested in https://gitlab.com/kragen/derctuo/blob/master/markdown/hacker-calendar.md https://gitlab.com/kragen/derctuo/blob/master/markdown/hacke..., although it's pretty incomplete. Yuan isn't on there, for example.
- mech422 5y agoGahh....Noo...I'll never finish looking all that up :-P Thanks - there's some interesting stuff there /me runs off to google "House of Wisdom"