Spot blotch is one of the major diseases in the wheat growing regions of Nepal and the knowledge allowing researchers to identify and understand the disease is thus crucial. A group of 12 wheat technical research staff from Nepal visited Banaras Hindu …
CIMMYT wheat material at the Sheshambagh Research Station in Nangarhar Province, Eastern Afghanistan. Photo credit: S.A. Attai
Building capacity for wheat production in Uzbekistan A novel project led by ICARDA in Uzbekistan is stimulating farmers to adopt new and improved wheat varieties and technologies. The project is aimed at increasing the effectiveness and impact of wheat…
Breeding of durable resistance to stripe rust —the greatest biotic threat to wheat production in the largest wheat producer and consumer in the world, China— was the major theme of a workshop jointly organized by the CIMMYT-Sichuan office and the S…
CIMMYT posted a photo: Emerging wheat spike from CIMMYT wheat nurseries planted at the National Agricultural Research Center in Islamabad, Pakistan. Photo credit: A. Yaqub/CIMMYT. http://www.cimmyt.com
