Ruth Wanyera knows wheat. It has been the focus of her career for almost three decades. In 2009, Wanyera was invited by the late Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Norman Borlaug, to a global conference in Mexico to present her research on stem rust—a virulent disease that threatens wheat production worldwide. Her role in this critical research, along with that of fellow researcher, Peter Njau, was described at the conference as “incalculable.”