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Preventing stripe rust in Sichuan, China

One of the worst wheat diseases in China, stripe rust has appeared in yearly epidemics since 1950 and caused losses of more than 60 million tons. As China is among the world’s main producers of wheat, the CIMMYT China office in Chengdu, in collaborat…

Advance Wheat Improvement Course 2012 (AWIC)

CIMMYT is organizing the Advance Wheat Improvement Course 2012. Objective To provide knowledge about wheat germplasm and new techniques in wheat breeding while understanding roles of support disciplines such as agronomy, pathology, quality, statistics,…

Nepal farmers like rust resistant wheat

On 14 May 2012, at Tikathali, Changathali Village Development Committee Centre (VDC) in Lalitpur, around 30 participants from MoA, NARC, seed companies, and CIMMYT were joined by 61 farmers (43 female, 18 male) and several graduate students and technic…