Spurred by the needs of a protein-hungry world, maize research has moved rapidly over the past 10 years. Maize breeders, biochemists, and nutritionists have combined their efforts to develop maize varieties and hybrids ...

A basic requirement of any agricultural research station is a well organized and managed experimental farm. In the past, agricultural research in India had suffered badly due to inadequate attention to this vital need. ...

Maize is produced primarily in temperate and warm-temperate zones of the world, but its production is increasing in many tropical regions. Some diseases are common to both of these environmental zones, even though their ...

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 ...

Report of the CIMMYT Triticale Program, nationally and internationally, regarding the research lines of the program and its improvement.

Four categories of on-farm activities are taken place in the 1979 wheat agronomy (rainfed) training program. These are research, verification, demonstration and seed multiplication. Of a total of 37 activities there are ...

The objectives of this report are three-fold. Firstly, it is planned to review briefly the work conducted by the CIMMYT wheat physiology/agronomy program since its inception 5 years ago and the conclusions forthcoming. The ...

The 10th. International Triticale Screening Nursery (ITSN) was sent in September, 1978 to be grown by cooperators in their spring season of 1979. One-hundred seventy-nine nurseries went to cooperators in 76 countries. The ...