Hands-on advanced training for young wheat breeders A training course aimed at improving wheat productivity through advanced techniques in plant breeding for West Asia and North Africa was recently completed in Cairo, Egypt. The course augmented the …
An international vision for wheat improvement By 2050, a 60% increase in wheat production will be needed to meet the demand of a growing population. In view of the importance of wheat for food security in the North and in the South, CIMMYT supports and…
The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and Murdoch University, Australia, with financial support from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the Australian government, officially opened the Australia-China Joint Center for Whea…
Increasing maize production in Afghanistan and defining research imperatives to address its major constraints were the topic of the 2nd Agricultural Research Institute of Afghanistan (ARIA)-CIMMYT maize workshop during 09- 10 April 2013 at the Plant Pr…
A study just published in Science by scientists from the University of Minnesota, CSIRO, the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, and CIMMYT shows that research to control the wheat disease known as stem rust during 1961-2009 has added 6…
