This bulletin contains a compilation of all semidwarf bread wheat cultivars and advanced lines produced by CIMMYT and by the Mexican National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA); it also contains the names and pedigrees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper discusses alternatives for improving the maize plant. While maize hybrids dominate in the developed world, open-pollinated varieties mostly are grown in the developing countries. The importance of population ...

This bulletin contains a compilation of all durum wheat cultivars and advanced lines produced by CIMMYT and by the Mexican National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA); it also contains the names and pedigrees of ...

This publication focuses on the development of the cross Veery. After eight years of international testing in hundreds of environmentally diverse locations it has been shown that the Veery lines have moved high-yielding ...

This bulletin contains a compilation of all triticale cultivars and advanced lines produced by CIMMYT and by the Mexican National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA); it also contains the names and pedigrees of ...

One of the most graphic symbols of achievement in the CIMMYT Maize Program, oddly enough, is a downward drifting line, representing the dramatic reduction in plant height brought about in a population based on the Mexican ...

The maize research and production program of Guatemala has made important contributions to Guatemalan farmers, to CIMMYT's own maize research program, and to the national research efforts of other countries.