The planting of wheat after rice is a major cropping pattern in the Punjab, occupying 0.5 million ha. in the Districts of Sheikhupura and Gujranwala alone. In this irrigated area, however, wheat yields remain low and ...

The first Elite Selection Wheat Yield Trial (ESWYT) was sent in 1979-80, to be grown by cooperators in their spring season of 1980. Thirty nurseries went to cooperators in 21 countries. The 30 advanced lines and varieties ...

Wheat (Triticum aestivum), the major rabi food crop is planted on all major agro-climatic conditions of the irrigated Punjab. Presently, a large number of wheat varieties are grown in different wheat areas of Punjab. Farmers ...

The course on Soil Borne Pathogens of Cereals was suggested by Dr Julie Nicol, CIMMYT Pathologist, who is based in the CIMMYT Regional office in Turkey. Dr Hans Braun (Head of this regional office) has been well aware of ...

In the dry agroecologies of the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region, especially in the cold highland areas, rural farming communities depend on wheat for food and income. These communities face formidable ...

Grain set failure or sterility in wheat is an important yield constraint in the rice-wheat system of South and Southeast Asian countries including Bangladesh occurring in some years but not in others. Wheat sterility was ...

A new wheat variety for the farmers of Georgia a new winter wheat variety, Mtskheta-1, was released in Georgia in November of 2002. It has been the top variety of the state yield trials of Georgia for the last three years, ...

In recent years, wheat consumption in developing countries has been on the rise. Population growth, urbanization, rising incomes, bread subsidies, and food aid have contributed to escalating demand. During the 1970s, ...

This document is the Users Manual of the Wheat Coefficient of Parentage System, a system for calculting coefficients of parentage between different wheat cultivars based on their individual pedigrees. The goal of the Wheat ...