A new wheat variety for the farmers of Georgia a new winter wheat variety, Mtskheta-1, was released in Georgia in November of 2002. It has been the top variety of the state yield trials of Georgia for the last three years, ...

Winter wheat is one of the most important crops in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Some 5-10 years ago, a well-coordinated network of winter wheat breeders in the region allowed germplasm and information exchange. In some ...

Through the decade of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, while both area and production of wheat were on an increase in Brazil, the country did not enjoy the benefits of the "miracle seed" of Mexican varieties that were ...

Maize is grown on some 24 million hectares in China, producing 115 million tons of grain annually. China will require 204 million tons of maize by 2020, mostly for animal feed. It will have to import approximately 18 million ...

On November 8, 1999, farmers, politicians, scientists, and seed producers in El Salvador witnessed the release of a new maize hybrid that could transform the diets of the poor. Not only does the hybrid, HQ-61, outyield ...

The soft chalky endosperm and other undesirable attributes associated with opaque-2 maize led CIMMYT to seek an alternate breeding strategy. The new research strategy involved the accmnulation and exploitation of genetic ...

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 ...

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. ...

This booklet is intended to aid researchers in meeting one of the critical challenges facing national maize programs in developing countries--which is to develop effective seed production systems for more rapid dissemination ...

Maize is grown throughout the SADC region. However growing conditions differ for rainfall, temperature, growing season length and the occurrence of diseases and pests. As a consequence, different maize varieties are ...