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…
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,…
GRIS (www.wheatpedigree.net) is designed to study the diversity of wheat through analysis of pedigrees, and provides information services for breeding and research programs. The database contains pedigree and genetic allele information on 160,000 genot…
ICARDA and CIMMYT, working with national programs and a range of other partners, have developed research workplans and implementation mechanisms for a new global partnership: the CGIAR Research Program on wheat (CRP3.1). The CRP meeting helped identify…
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…
