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...class, the desire to escape a gut reputation has led the professor to put the course on hold while he rethinks the course material and prepares a textbook to be used in 1992. Indeed, Bussey Professor of Biology Otto T. Solbrig was so upset when Science B-38: "Plants and Biological Principles in Human Affairs," became a popular gut that he may take it out of the Core...
...first time Solbrig offered the course in 1989, the class was relatively small and consisted of about 50 students "genuinely interested in botany," Solbrig says...
...work was very important in practical terms and in theoretical terms," said Bussey Professor of Biology Otto T. Solbrig, who worked with Mangelsdorf and who briefly held a chair endowed in the botanist's name...
During this time "he developed methods for breeding corn that had been used until about 10 years ago," according to Solbrig. The research was the basis of a recommendation that helped Mexico triple its corn production and boost fivefold its wheat output...
...Science B-38. "Plants and Biological Principles in Human Affairs" Otto T. Solbrig...