Sustainable cereal production on farmers' fields: that is the ultimate measure of the impact of CIMMYT's research. Its achievement requires a combination of effective technologies and the most appropriate seeds. Over the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Genetic improvement of protein quality of maize endosperm to make it better balanced and of greater biological value both for human and animal consumption has received major emphasis in CIMMYT's maize breeding program for ...

Wheat, Triticale and Barley Seminar Conference; held in El Batan, Texas (Mexico); January 22-26, 1973. This conference was planned to serve two separate functions. One was to bring together a research group on wheat and ...

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 ...

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 ...