"The red wigglers are the best varieties for doing it because they are more of a surface feeder.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

"This is a new strain of stem rust organism that has the power to destroy most of the wheat varieties being grown around the world."

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

"And so once we understand the genetics, we can try and just take those particular genes and work with popular varieties of rice to cross those particular genes into a popular variety and still maintain the expected cooking and eating qualities of the grain."

VOA: standard.2010.06.25