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 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 ...

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 ...

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), the silver fiber, is an important crop of Pakistan and occupies a key position in the economy, providing significant foreign exchange. This crop is mainly grown in the southern part of the ...

Los sectores agrícolas de muchos países en desarrollo han sufrido una profunda transformación en las últimas dos décadas. Los métodos tradicionales de producción han dado paso rápidamente a las tecnologías agrícolas modernas ...

Uno de los símbolos más relevantes de los logros del Programa de Maíz del CIMMYT es, por extraño que parezca, una línea descendiente que representa la espectacular reducción en la altura de la planta obtenida en una población ...

Ha sido reconocido desde hace mucho tiempo que el maíz difiere grandemente en su respuesta a ambientes diferentes. Muchas variedades muestran una adaptación específica a una gama muy restringida de factores climáticos o ...

En 1976, una docena de agricultores de Mulunquishi, una pequeña aldea de la región sur de Zaire, cosecharon 6,000 kilos de maíz por hectárea, un rendimiento respetable en la faja maicera de los Estados Unidos o en cualquiera ...

This study was undertaken to assess farmers' use of different wheat varieties in two major growing environments of Baluchistan. Overall, farmers planted wheat on 39% of their cultivated area. Overall, 41 percent of the ...

Critics of modern maize and wheat varieties (MVs) have suggested that, in developing countries, yields of these varieties vary more from season to season than yields of farmers’ traditional varieties, thereby exposing ...