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Conference Proceedings
International Wheat Improvement: Highlights from an Expert Symposium
(CIMMYT, 2008)
Wheat is grown on 217 million hectares worldwide, accounting for some 620 million tons of grain and providing one-fifth of the world’s total calorific input. In regions like North Africa, Turkey, and Central Asia, wheat ...
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Science Week: program and abstracts
(CIMMYT, 2008)
A forum for exchanges among CIMMYT staff on progress, key issues and new opportunities related to CIMMYT’s role in science and development for maize and wheat systems, for assessing progress in ongoing projects and the ...
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International Symposium on Wheat Yield Potential: Challenges to International Wheat Breeding
(CIMMYT, 2008)
Like many other patterns, investment in research is often cyclical. International centers like CIMMYT have focused substantial resources on biotic and abiotic stresses for about two decades now, but raising total productivity ...
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Symposium on global climate change: imperatives for agricultural research in Asia-Pacific
(CIMMYT; ICARDA; ICRISAT, 2008)
The fourth assessment report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in 2007, has revealed that increases in the emission of green house gases (GHGs) have resulted in warming of the climate system ...