{"id":157696,"date":"2023-06-26T07:38:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=157696"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:39:02","slug":"wheat-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/biotechnology\/wheat-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s contributions to Nobel prize-winning wheat project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Por : Luis Mario Garc\u00eda \/ CONECTA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What had happened in Mexico before the so-called \u201cGreen Revolution\u201d? That was the question researcher <\/a>Eva Luisa Rivas Sada<\/a> asked herself in order to understand the country\u2019s participation in the post-Second World War period noted for an increase in the production of wheat, corn, and rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s well-known worldwide that a high-impact scientific research project was developed in Mexico after the war, and this led the team leader, Norman Borlaug, to win the Nobel Peace Prize (in 1970),\u201d explains the professor at the Tec\u2019s School of Humanities and Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known as the father of modern agriculture, Norman Ernst Bourlaug has been one of the most important figures in agriculture throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rivas Sada traced all the efforts that the Ministry of Agriculture had made to improve crops in Mexico in general, prior to Borlaug\u2019s work, and was able to document how efforts to improve seed quality had begun under the government of Mexican President Porfirio D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research, <\/a>entitled The search for adaptation and resistance: biological innovations in Mexican wheat cultivation, 1909-1941<\/em><\/a> won the Best Economic History Article award given by the Mexican Committee of Historical Sciences<\/a> of Colegio de M\u00e9xico (Colmex).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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