In a recent interview on Ground Cover TV, John Harvey, Managing Director of Australia’s Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC), described CIMMYT’s high value to the global wheat research community, calling it among other things “…a Mecca for wheat researchers.” An Australian statutory corporation founded in 1990, GRDC is one
CIMMYT posted a photo: A wheat field in Kostanay, Kazakhstan. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT. For the latest on CIMMYT in Pakistan, see http://blog.cimmyt.org/?s=Kazakhstan.
Ug99 slips across international borders, mowing down resistance and leaving a trail of death and destruction. Scientists work against the clock to stop this ruthless killer—sometimes known as the Red Menace—before it’s too late… Ug99 might soun…
The International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (IWWIP) develops winter wheat germplasm for Central and West Asia and facilitates global germplasm exchange, as part of a joint program between the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of Turkey…
the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center announced that it had introduced a wheat variety in Bangladesh which is tolerant to the Ug99 strain of stem-rust fungus. The new variety has been developed together with the Bangladesh Agricultural R…
