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  • Proceedings of the 2nd International TRIGO (Wheat) Yield Potential: workshop 2016
    (CIMMYT, 2016) Reynolds, M.P.; Molero, G.; Quilligan, E.
    The abstracts herein are of presentations by crop experts for the “TRIGO (Wheat) Yield Potential Workshop”. Sponsored by SAGARPA’s international strategic component for increasing wheat performance, under the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture Program (MasAgro); and CRP WHEAT.
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  • International TRIGO (Wheat) Yield Potential, Proceedings; Cd. Obregon, Sonora, Mexico; 24-26 Mar 2015
    (CIMMYT, 2015) Reynolds, M.P.; Molero, G.; Mollins, J.; Braun, H.J.
    The abstracts herein are of presentations by crop experts for the “TRIGO (Wheat) Yield Potential Workshop”. Sponsored by SAGARPA’s international strategic component for increasing wheat performance, under the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture Program (MasAgro); and CRP WHEAT. The event covers innovative methods to significantly raise wheat yield potential, including making photosynthesis more efficient, improving adaptation of flowering to diverse environments, addressing the physical processes involved in lodging, and physiological and molecular breeding. The workshop represents the current research of the MasAgro TRIGO project and CRP WHEAT that involves scientists working on all continents to strategically integrate research components in a common breeding platform, there by speeding the delivery to farmers of new wheat genotypes.
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  • Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling Wheat Response to High Temperature; El Batan, Texcoco, Mexico; 19-21 Jun 2013
    (CIMMYT, 2013) Alderman, P.D.; Quilligan, E.; Asseng, S.; Ewert, F.; Reynolds, M.P.
    The abstracts here in are of presentations by experts participating in the workshop “Modeling Wheat Response to High Temperature”. Sponsored by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and in collaboration with the University of Florida, University of Bonn, and the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP).
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  • International Workshop of the Wheat Yield Consortium, 3. Proceedings; Cd. Obregon, Sonora, Mexico; 5-7 Mar 2013
    (CIMMYT, 2013) Reynolds, M.P.; Braun, H.J.
    The abstracts herein are of presentations by crop experts for the ”3rd International Workshop of the Wheat Yield Consortium”. Sponsored by SAGARPA’s international strategic component for increasing wheat performance, under the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture Program (MasAgro); and GRDC, Australia. The event covers innovative methods to significantly raise wheat yield potential, including making photosynthesis more efficient, improving adaptation of flowering to diverse environments, addressing the physical processes involved in lodging, and physiological and molecular breeding. The workshop represents the current research of the International Wheat Yield Consortium that involves scientists working on all continents to strategically integrate research components in a common breeding platform, thereby speeding the delivery to farmers of new wheat genotypes.
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  • Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop of the wheat yield consortium
    (CIMMYT, 2011) Reynolds, M.P.; Mullan, D.M.; Braun, H.J.
    The abstracts herein are of presentations by crop experts for the workshop ?Wheat Yield consortium: Sponsored by SAGARPA?s international strategic component for increasing wheat performance, under the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture Program (MasAgro); BBSRC, UK; USAID, USA; and GRDC, Australia. The event covers innovative methods to significantly raise wheat yield potential, including making photosynthesis more efficient, improving adaptation of flowering to diverse environments, addressing the physical processes involved in lodging, and physiological and molecular breeding. The workshop represents the initial research of the International Wheat Yield Consortium that involves scientists working on all continents to strategically integrate research components in a common breeding platform, thereby speeding the delivery to farmers of new wheat genotypes.
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  • International Wheat Improvement: Highlights from an Expert Symposium
    (CIMMYT, 2008) Reynolds, M.P.; Hobbs, P.R.; Ortiz, R.; Pietragalla, J.; Braun, H.J.
    Wheat is grown on 217 million hectares worldwide, accounting for some 620 million tons of grain and providing one-fifth of the world’s total calorific input. In regions like North Africa, Turkey, and Central Asia, wheat provides fully half of total dietary calories. Half the world’s wheat area is found in developing countries, where steady increases in productivity since the Green Revolution, associated with improved yields, resistance to diseases, adaptation to abiotic stresses, and better agronomic practices, are now under serous threat. Challenges include increased demand, scarcity of water resources, unpredictable climates, increased urbanization and loss of quality farmland, and decreased public investments in agriculture. To meet the rising demand for wheat in a sustainable way, farmers need a new generation of improved cultivars, along with resource-conserving practices to grow them. In March 2006, with support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), CIMMYT brought together 160 scientists from over 30 wheatproducing countries to discuss how to increase wheat production sustainably. Their presentations and discussions are being assembled in the proceedings International Symposium on Wheat Yield Potential: Challenges to International Wheat Breeding, to be published by CIMMYT in March 2008. The volume will include articles from the symposium already published in 2007 in special issues of Euphytica (volume 157:3) and the Journal of Agricultural Science (volume 145:1-3), as well as other papers from the meetings: Reports of the workshop “Stakeholder priorities for internationally-coordinated wheat research” involving representatives of major wheat producing countries on all continents whose remit was to develop a list of priorities for future wheat research that could best be tackled in a globally-coordinated fashion, and outlines of activities that would serve as templates for future project development for selected priorities. The summary of field day presentations by groups of collaborating scientists in attendance, illustrating the continuum between national, regional, and internationalcenter-based research activities. Reports of a pre-symposium survey soliciting statistics on wheat production and constraints to productivity and research from 19 countries in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa; Central and West Asia and North Africa; and South and Southeast Asia. Collectively these countries account for over 100 million hectares of wheat and around 90% of the wheat production in the developing world. The data were also used to prepare a general summary of the constraints to productivity and research across the above-mentioned regions.
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  • Complementary strategies to raise wheat yield potential: book of abstracts
    (CIMMYT, 2009) Reynolds, M.P.; Eaton, D.
    The abstracts herein are of presentations by world-renowned experts for the workshop “Complementary strategies to raise wheat yield potential” (10-13 November 2009, CIMMYT-El Batán, Mexico). Sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the event covered innovative methods to significantly raise wheat yield potential, including making photosynthesis more efficient, improving environmental adaptation, addressing the physical processes involved in lodging, and physiological and molecular breeding. The workshop also represented a key step in establishing an International Wheat Yield Potential Consortium that involves scientists working on all continents to strategically integrate research components in a common breeding platform, thereby speeding the delivery to farmers of new wheat genotypes.
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  • International Symposium on Wheat Yield Potential: Challenges to International Wheat Breeding
    (CIMMYT, 2008) Reynolds, M.P.; Pietragalla, J.; Braun, H.J.
    Like many other patterns, investment in research is often cyclical. International centers like CIMMYT have focused substantial resources on biotic and abiotic stresses for about two decades now, but raising total productivity is also back on the development agenda. There are a number of reasons for this, among them sharp rises in the price of staple foods as well as the manifestation of detrimental effects of climate change on productivity. Those factors threaten not only the livelihoods of resource-poor people but food security at a broader level, as highlighted by the World Bank’s recent World Development Report. CIMMYT has an unsurpassed record when it comes to raising crop yields from the days of the Green Revolution; as can be seen from the comprehensive scope of this new publication, our Global Wheat Program is back in the game. The book consists of proceedings of a week-long consultation of experts and leaders held in 2006 and representing all major wheat producing countries worldwide. It encompasses their ideas on how, through internationally coordinated collaborative research, proven technologies of the past can be married with new tools and approaches to meet demand for the world’s number one staple crop: wheat.
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  • Increasing yield potential in wheat: breaking the barriers. Proceedings of a workshop held in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico
    (CIMMYT, 1996) Reynolds, M.P.; Rajaram, S.; McNab, A.
    CIMMYT's focus on developing wheat varieties that produce higher and more stable yields has made a tremendous difference in the lives of millions of people in the developing world. In the mid 1960s, the dramatic increases in world wheat production achieved by the improved semidwarf varieties of the Green Revolution staved off impending widespread hunger and starvation in Asia. In more recent times, the modern wheats that have gradually replaced those early varieties in farmers' fields have generated a 1 % average increase in wheat production each year. Today, however, yield increases in some of the most productive environments in the developing world have begun to level off. Productivity in those favorable environments must improve, but without straining the natural resource base that underpins agriculture today and in the future. Expanding the land under cultivation to fulfill the demands for more food is no longer possible. We need new, more resource-efficient varieties that produce higher and more stable yields to make up for the food deficit. Nonetheless, increases in wheat's genetic yield potential are becoming harder to achieve, and we have to find new approaches to break through the barriers before us. Success in raising wheat's yield potential will hinge on creatively combining strategies arising from different disciplines. To generate new thinking on ways to improve the wheat plant's ability to yield more, in March 1996 the CIMMYT Wheat Program organized a workshop in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico, with the invited participation of 12 internationally recognized experts in the fields of plant breeding, physiology, and biotechnology. The three day workshop gave CIMMYT staff a unique opportunity to consider and explore novel approaches to the yield barrier problem. The ideas put forth by the specialists provided fertile ground for discussion, and the outcomes will no doubt influence the strategies the Wheat Program will adopt in facing this challenge. We are extremely grateful to the 12 experts who generously gave of their time to preparing and participating in an extraordinarily fruitful workshop. Their willingness to put before their colleagues new hypotheses, as well as their openness to questions and suggestions, set the tone for this event, which will be memorable as an exceptional example of thought-provoking, collegial debate.
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