After screening some 500 wheat lines and varieties at 6 sites in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, a group of scientists were able to identify 35 genotypes that resist spot blotch. This is the number-one disease of wheat in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, ser…
Why is wheat a strategic crop for Africa? In the 1990′s, economists considered wheat to be a “minor food” for consumers in sub-Saharan Africa. But wheat is a no longer a minor crop. African countries will spend about US$20 billion to …
The Government of Nepal and the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) awarded Madan Raj Bhatta, Sarala Sharma, Deepak Bhandari, Dhruba Bahadur Thapa, and Nutan Raj Gautam — winners of the first-ever Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) Gene St…
Wheat scientists in Obregón busy pulling out about 75,000 individual plants, some of which will be used in various parts of the world in the near future. Photo credit: V. Govindan/CIMMYT. http://www.cimmyt.com
In the light of the impact made by CIMMYT in physiological pre-breeding in spring wheat with drought, the Global Wheat Program in Turkey expanded their efforts to winter wheat. To support the work of the International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (…
