Match the plant scientist to his background.
1. Paul Erlich
An American agronomist whose breakthrough work with food crops helped maintain world food supplies through the past half-century, preventing predicted famines.
2. Norman Borlaug
An American botanist who worked to develop alternate crops to replace cotton during the boll weevil crisis.
3. Gregor Mendel
A landscape architect best known for the design and execution of Central Park, in New York City.
4. Fredrick Law Olmstead
A monk whose work on plant breeding made him a founding figure in the development of plant science.
5. George Washington Carver
Wrote The Population Bomb, predicting the breakdown of the food system and famines.
