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Genetic improvement of wheat grain quality at CIMMYT
(Higher Education Press, 2019)
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is the global leader in publiclyfunded maize and wheat research and in farming systems based on these crops. CIMMYT leads the Global Wheat Program (GWP), which ...
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China-CIMMYT collaboration enhances wheat improvement in China
(Higher Education Press, 2019)
China and CIMMYT have collaborated on wheat improvement for over 40 years and significant progress has been achieved in five aspects in China. A standardized protocol for testing Chinese noodle quality has been established ...
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International Winter Wheat Improvement Program: history, activities, impact and future
(Higher Education Press, 2019)
International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (IWWIP) was established in 1986 between the Government of Turkey and CIMMYT with three main objectives: (1) develop winter/facultative germplasm for Central and West Asia, (2) ...
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Northern Himalayan region of Pakistan with cold and wet climate favors a high prevalence of wheat powdery mildew
(University of Agriculture, 2019)
Wheat diseases remains the major constraint to wheat production across Pakistan, including rusts and powdery mildews. Although significant attention is given to rust diseases, powdery mildew is a less considered diseases ...
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Comments on special issue on “Wheat Genetics and Breeding”
(Higher Education Press, 2019)
This special issue on wheat genetics and breeding presents a broad range of topics on the subject, such as wheat genomics, high throughput phenotyping platform for abiotic stress and yield estimation, breeding for resistance ...
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Food security and agriculture in the Western Highlands of Guatemala
(Springer, 2019)
Food security is a major challenge in Guatemala, one of the poorest countries in the world. Food insecurity is concentrated in the Western Highlands of Guatemala (WHG) where indigenous communities have been the main victims ...
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Is labour a major determinant of yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa? a study of cereal-based production systems in Southern Ethiopia
(Elsevier, 2019)
We investigated the role of labour in explaining the yield gap of cereals at both crop and farm levels on smallholder farms in Southern Ethiopia. A household survey containing detailed information of labour use at crop and ...
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Integrating genomic resources to present full gene and putative promoter capture probe sets for bread wheat
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
Whole-genome shotgun resequencing of wheat is expensive because of its large, repetitive genome. Moreover, sequence data can fail to map uniquely to the reference genome, making it difficult to unambiguously assign variation. ...
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Genetic dissection of drought and heat‐responsive agronomic traits in wheat
(John Wiley & Sons, 2019)
High yield and wide adaptation are principal targets of wheat breeding but are hindered by limited knowledge on genetic basis of agronomic traits and abiotic stress tolerances. In this study, 277 wheat accessions were ...
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Investigation and genome-wide association study for Fusarium crown rot resistance in Chinese common wheat
(BioMed Central, 2019)
Fusarium crown rot (FCR) is a severe and chronic disease in common wheat and is able to cause serious yield loss and health problems to human and livestock. Here, 234 Chinese wheat cultivars were evaluated in four greenhouse ...