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[00:01.00]Two scientists who worked for years to develop high-protein corn have won the World Food Prize for this year.
[00:10.66]Evangelina Villegas of Mexico and Surinder Vasal of India will be honored next month at ceremonies in the United States.
[00:22.65]The World Food Prize Foundation presents the award each year to honor people who have improved the quality of world food supplies.
[00:33.99]Mizz Villegas is the first woman to be honored in the fourteen years since the World Food Prize was established.
[00:43.76]The two scientists did their work at CIMMYT,the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico.
[00:53.58]The World Food Prize committee says they have worked together for the past thirty years to develop quality protein maize.
[01:03.82]The new maize,or corn,contains a gene that increases the amount of protein in the plant.
[01:12.42]American scientists at Purdue University in Indiana first identified the gene in Nineteen-Sixty-Three.
[01:21.79]However,early efforts to produce this kind of maize failed.
[01:27.88]The plants were difficult to grow.Also,insects and disease often attacked them.
[01:36.37]Mizz Villegas and Mister Vasal successfully used a method known as cross-breeding.
[01:44.86]They used different kinds of maize to produce a stronger,more successful plant.
[01:52.59]The scientists found the high-protein maize could be produced at the same rate as traditional maize.
[02:02.18]And the new plants had two times the amount of two important proteins normally found in other maize.
[02:12.00]Quality protein maize is currently being tested in China,Ghana,Mexico,Vietnam and fourteen other developing countries.
[02:25.53]Maize is an important feed grain for farm animals.
[02:30.52]It also is a major food for hundreds of millions of people.
[02:36.06]In Africa and Latin America,mothers commonly give a substance made from maize to their babies.
[02:45.44]The World Food Organization says people with diets based on normal maize do not get enough protein.
[02:55.47]W-H-O officials blame a severe lack of protein for the deaths of as many as five-million young children each year.
[03:06.70]The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center has done studies of the new maize in Peru and Colombia.
[03:16.29]The studies have shown that a controlled diet with the high-protein maize can help restore the health of many children.
[03:28.07]The group reports similar results in a village in Ghana and in studies in the United States.
