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    A survey on stem rust resistance in the USDA world durum collection and in CIMMYT durum breeding lines
    (CIMMYT, 1970) Rajaram, S.; Devecioglu, B.; Borlaug, N.E.; Finlay, K.W.; Varughese, G.; Rodriguez, E.
    Utilizing the stem rust races with known pathogenicity genes, 349 varieties of durums have been screened. These varieties were selected from over 3,000 of the USDA World Durum Collection on basis of their field reaction when grown in the Yaqui Valley, Mex
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    Results of the third International Spring Wheat Yield Nursery (ISWYN), 1966-1967
    (CIMMYT, 1970) Finlay, K.W.; Krull, C.F.; Borlaug, N.E.
    Fifty wheat vanettes representative of the major spring types were tested in the Third International Spring Wheat Yield Nursery ( ISWYN). Results were obtained from 62 locations throughout the spring wheat regions of the world. Data received included yield and other agronomic and disease traits. These data were analyzed statistically and correlations were calculated between the means of all traits measured for each location. Two new varieties, Super X and Inia 66, proved generally well adapted as indicated by their overall mean yield. Also, the varieties Pitic 62, Lerma Rojo 64A and Penjamo 62 were again among the five highest yielding varieties. This suggests that from year to year some varieties do well over a very wide range of environments and yet improvements can be made. The results from this ISWYN further support the previous contention that it is possible to breed varieties that have a much wider range of adaptation than was previously thought possible.
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    Current status of plant resources and utilization
    (CIMMYT, [1976?]) Sprague, E.W.; Finlay, K.W.
    Cereal food deficits in the Developing Market Economies could swell to an estimated 100 million tons by 1985, if crop production growth continues at a 2.0 per cent annual rate. For perspective, such a deficit can be compared to the total annual cereal production recently recorded for all of Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East --an average of about 108 million tons produced during 1969-1971. And the 100 million ton shortage can be considered conservative in light of a drop in growth rate to 1.7 per cent annually during the 1970-1974 period. Thus, production growth rate must at least double, to 4.0 per cent per year, if we are to meet the cereal food demands of 1985 and eliminate the estimated deficit. Using the most conservative of figures, it is evident that the world will soon face a critical situation. Imaginative and effective strategies must be developed to generate a growth rate production of 4.0 per cent. Such growth might be possible under favorable conditions, but could it be maintained? What might we expect after 1985? There is little evidence that population growth is being slowed significantly; thus we have two alternatives: the need for a higher rate of production growth for several decades to come, or the specter of increasing poverty, malnutrition and social unrest. Now that the immensity of the population explosion is becoming more apparent, there is a growing concern that our natural resources and utilization methods may be inadequate to meet the task of increasing food production at an accelerated rate. Similarly, there is concern that our resource management techniques are inefficient and improper, with the danger that our crop germplasm has(or will)become vulnerable to wide-spread attacks by pests and diseases. With the unfavorable balance between population and food production growth, we cannot risk major crop failures anywhere in the world.
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