Within the past fourteen years, the task of breeding for nutritionally superior maize types has been greatly facilitated by the discovery of the biochemical effects of the opaque-2 and floury-2 genes. Through manipulation ...

Since 1971 CIMMYT has been helping the governments of Tunisia and Algeria test the potential value of a rotation of winter annual legume pasture (Medfoago spp. ) and wheat for replacing the present weed_ fallow-wheat ...

The progress made in the various aspects of the UNDP-CIMMYT Global Research Project "Research and training in the development of High Lysine Maize" during the period September 1976 to August 1977 is presented in this report. ...

It has been known for a long time that varieties of maize differ greatly in their response to different environments, Many varieties are specifically adapted to a very narrow range of climatic or edaphic factors, while ...

The impact of CIMMYT's outreach programs is largely dependent upon the quality of information, materials, training and coordination emanating from its core program in Mexico and from the highly effective cooperative network ...

The following report presents the progress made in the various aspects of UNDP-CIMMYT Global Research Project "Research and Training in the Development of High Lysine Maize". The report covers the period from March 1973 - ...

Genetic improvement of protein quality of maize endosperm to make it better balanced and of greater biological value both for human and animal consumption has received major emphasis in CIMMYT's maize breeding program for ...

The International Agronomic Trial Network is designed to test, gather, share technical information, and to economically raise maize yields in the Central American and Caribbean countries. It pretends to standardize the ...

For more than a decade, Zaire's maize production has not increased fast enough to supply rapidly increasing domestic demand. The result has been a sharp increase in maize imports, and this in turn has pinched already limited ...