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 ...

CIMMYT is a new concept of voluntary international cooperation aimed at contributing to rapid and substantial increases in world food production. Its province is wheat and maize, and its goal, in collaboration with interested ...

The following information guide reflects the policies of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center toward In-Service Training, including specific guidelines for trainees. A 11 incoming trainees will be sent this ...

Este informe anual cubre las actividades del CIMMYT hasta 1971 inclusive. Los informes anteriores terminaban a mitad del año. Por ello, en este caso ha sido necesario incluir algunos trabajos sobre un período de 18 meses. ...

En 1964, Mertz, Bates y Nelson encontraron que el gene mutante opaco-2 del maíz modifica el balance de aminoácidos de la proteína del endospermo e incrementa el contenido de lisina y triptofano. Este descubrimiento abrió ...

This annual report carries the story of CIMMYT through 1971. Previous reports ended in midyear. Therefore, it has been necessary to report some activities over an 18-month period. The years 1970 and 1971 were extraordinary ...

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 ...

Leaf rust of wheat, Puccinia recondita rob. ex Desm., is a major disease of wheat in many areas of the world. Samborski and Peturson (1960) reported reduction in yield of 58 percent at Winnipeg, Canada. Phipps (1938) ...

Many potentially useful advanced spring wheat lines were identified in the Third International Bread Wheat Screening Nurseries (Series A). One table is presented in summary of those entries which gave resistant type reactions ...

Due primarily to the work of members of the Plant Science Department of the University of Manitoba, and more recently to CIMMYT working in collaboration with the Canadian group, many of the basic deficiencies of Triticale ...