Wheat diseases in India were last summarized in 1961. This paper describes diseases of wheat noted during the past 2 years, with the exception of rust and smuts. Leaf spot diseases were widespread; Helminthosporium ...

In a world of relentless population growth, shrinking arable land resources per capita and an ever present need for more and better food for the impoverished, there is a tremendous task and responsibility for scientists, ...

In the concern over the current world food crisis, the importance of maize is often underestimated: hunger is commonly understood as a question of rice ahd wheat. Indeed, while maize is second in production only to wheat ...

In 1976, a dozen farmers in Mulunguishi, a tiny village in southeastern Zaire, harvested 6000 kilograms of maize a hectare -a yield that would be respectable for any maize farmer. These farmers were participating in a ...

Egypt has pulled together widely dispersed scientists into an efficient, systematic maize research group. With CIMMYT's help, the foundation is being laid for sharply raising the productivity of the nation's major food crop.

El desarrollo, p0r parte de CIMMYT, de trigos duros (cristalinos o macarroneros) enanos y de amplia adaptación, ha ensanchado las perspectivas de producción alimentaria de las países donde se siembra este tipo de trigo. ...

Desde 1970, Turquía ha llevado a efecto un vigoroso programa nacional de mejoramiento de trigo. El CIMMYT y varias otras organizaciones han ayudado mediante la asignación de científicos que trabajan en el programa durante ...

El intensivo trabajo genotécnico realizado con triticale en el CIMMYT durante la década pasada, ha llevado a este cultivo "hecho por el hombre" al umbral de su explotaci6n comercial por agricultores del trópico y subtrópico.

CIMMYT's development of short, widely adapted durum wheats has enhanced the food production prospects of durum-producing nations. Scientists at CIMMYT and in national cereal programs are working together to combine high ...

Intensive triticale breeding at CIMMYT during the past decade has brought this "man-made" crop to the brink of commercial cultivation by farmers in the tropics and subtropics.