The 1975-76 crop season was marked as the best cereal production year in Algeria since 1909 (the date from which data is kept). The rain distribution in almost all the regions was excellent from seeding to mid dough stage, ...

Triticale has created considerable discussion and controversy during the past few years. It has been promoted extensively in North America as a miracle crop, the answer tc growing protein deficits. Its failure to live up ...

Ideally the experimenter would like to use treatment design to minimize both variance and bias problems in estimating yield from fertilizer application. Selecting a treatment design for variance considerations will not ...

This report summarizes the progress made and some of the problems encountered in the Triticale program at CIMMYT during the past year and a supplement to the reports prepared in 1968 and 1969. Since copies of the previous ...

Shortly after the turn of the century, devastating wheat rust epidemics in the Great Plains of North America (Northern Mexico, the Plains of the U.S.A. and the Prairie Provinces of Canada), prompted the study of physiologic ...

Data returned on the First ISN suggest the presence of several desirable disease resistant spring wheat lines. One table is presented in summary of the most outstanding First International Screening Nursery entries.

In 1964 Mertz, Bates and Nelson ( 1) found that the mutant gene opaque-2 of maize produces a modified amino acid balance of the grain endosperm protein with increased quantities of lysine and tryptophan. This discovery ...

The season of 1976-77 started with excellent prospects for another record crop for Algeria and ended up as one of the worst. Preseeding rainfall was excellent and at times too much in the east and this hindered proper land ...

This report summarizes the third year of the CIMMYT program in Algeria. Emphasis was continued in breeding and production research of cereals, and a program was initiated involving research on various phases of introducing ...

The work of collecting, preserving, planting, and taking notes of the many maize strains is the product of the cooperative efforts of many individuals. A complete list of all who helped in one way or the other would be ...