The strength and breadth of the fruitful five-decade partnership between Pakistan and CIMMYT have grown significantly in recent years: this was one conclusion from the visit to CIMMYT on 29 May 2012 of a 12-member team of senior civil servants, ambassa…
June 3, 2012, Shenzhen, China – BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, together with other 17 international institutes, announced that they completed the second generation of maize HapMap (Maize HapMap2) and genomics studies on maize d…
LUDHIANA: Though Chinese goods have thronged Indian market like anything and it is obviously not possible to match their production pace, but agriculture is one field where this neighbouring country is looking up to Punjab.
China, which has vast agricu…
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…
