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“A breeder’s dream”

CIMMYT posted a photo: This week’s winner in our photo competition is Vadim Ganeyev, one of our friends and partners in Kazakhstan, who shared several fantastic photos with us. This image shows wheat growing in the field. “He is a talented bree…

A radiant smile for nutritious maize

CIMMYT posted a photo: Dennis Friesen, consultant to the Nutritious Maize for Ethiopia (NuME) Project, is one of two runners up this week in our photo competition for CIMMYT staff and friends. His joyful image shows Madame Dadhitu Olkaba, a female head…

Hybrid maize harvest in Iran

CIMMYT posted a photo: This week’s winner in our photo competition comes from one of our friends and partners in Iran: Saeed Khavari Khorasani, assistant professor at the Seed and Plant Improvement Institute (SPII), Khorasan Razavi Agricultural a…

A handful of maize

CIMMYT posted a photo: A handful of maize seed, with varied colors illustrating maize’s tremendous diversity. CIMMYT’s gene bank contains around 28,000 unique samples of maize seed, including more than 24,000 farmer landraces—traditional,…

Visitors to CIMMYT’s seed bank

CIMMYT posted a photo: Visitors to CIMMYT discover the incredible diversity stored in the maize active collection of the Wellhausen-Anderson Plant Genetic Resources Center. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains around 28,000 unique samples of maize se…