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Brochure
Mexico y el CIMMYT
(CIMMYT, 2009)
A principios de los 40, México gestionó asistencia técnica para superar los recurrentes défi cit de alimentos que padecía. La gestión tuvo por resultado un esfuerzo conjunto de largo plazo entre la Secretaría de Agricultura ...
Handbook
Calosa como herramienta de selección para tolerancia del maíz al aluminioManual de laboratorio
(CIMMYT, 2009)
De acuerdo con proyecciones para el año 2020, la demanda de maíz en los países en desarrollo superará la demanda de trigo y de arroz. Si se considera que en 1995 se consumieron 558 millones de toneladas de maíz, la demanda ...
Book
Conservation agriculture and soil carbon sequestration: between myth and farmer reality
(CIMMYT, 2009)
Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on the environment. Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when combined with removal or in situ burning ...
Conference Proceedings
Cereal cyst nematodes: status, research and outlook
(CIMMYT, 2009)
The first meeting of the International Cereal Cyst Nematode Initiative, held in October 2009 in Turkey, involved over 60 scientists from wheat-growing regions in Asia, Australia, Europe, north Africa and North America. ...
Conference Proceedings
Complementary strategies to raise wheat yield potential: book of abstracts
(CIMMYT, 2009)
The abstracts herein are of presentations by world-renowned experts for the workshop “Complementary strategies to raise wheat yield potential” (10-13 November 2009, CIMMYT-El Batán, Mexico). Sponsored by the United States ...
Annual Report
CIMMYT- Afghanistan: annual report 2009
(CIMMYT; ARIA, 2009)
This annual report summarizes the research and capacity building activities undertaken by CIMMYT-Afghanistan during 2008 - 2009 for wheat and maize. The results for various international and national field trials are present ...
Article
Validation of consensus quantitative trait loci associated with resistance to multiple foliar pathogens of maize
(American Phytopathological Society (APS), 2009)
Maize production in sub-Saharan Africa incurs serious losses to epiphytotics of foliar diseases. Quantitative trait loci conditioning partial resistance (rQTL) to infection by causal agents of gray leaf spot (GLS), northern ...
Article
Quantitative trait loci mapping for adult-plant resistance to powdery mildew in Chinese wheat cultivar Bainong 64
(American Phytopathological Society (APS), 2009)
Adult-plant resistance (APR) is an effective means of controlling powdery mildew in wheat. In the present study, 406 simple-sequence repeat markers were used to map quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for APR to powdery mildew ...
Annual Report
New Seed Initiative for Maize in Southern Africa (NSIMA): annual report 2008
(CIMMYT, 2009)
The New Seed Initiative for Maize in Southern Africa (NSlMA) Project has completed the first year of the second phase of funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. This phase of the project supported a ...
Article
Estimating maize genetic erosion in modernized smallholder agriculture
(Springer, 2009)
Replacement of crop landraces by modern varieties is thought to cause diversity loss. We studied genetic erosion in maize within a model system; modernized smallholder agriculture in southern Mexico. The local seed supply ...