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Informe CIMMYT 1967-68: sobre avances hacia el aumento de rendimientos de maiz y trigo
(CIMMYT, 1968)
Durante el año pasado, el CIMMYT reforzó la investigación y el adiestramiento en México y amplió la red de programas cooperativos de investigación y producción en las áreas tropicales y subtropicales del mundo. Además de ...
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CIMMYT Informe de actividades 1966-69
(CIMMYT, 1969)
La gran contribución a la revolución agrícola de las variedades mejoradas de alto rendimiento, resistentes a las enfermedades y con alta respuesta a los fertilizantes, es evidente en el aumento especracular de la producción ...
Article
Variability in the lysine content of wheat, rye, and triticale proteins
(CIMMYT, 1968)
Undernutrition and malnutrition are currently widespread in many areas of the world. The most serious nutritional problem is protein-calorie malnutrition among children in the developing countries. ( 5, 24). There now ...
Handbook
Field technique for fertilizer experiments
(CIMMYT, 1968)
As farmers make the transition from traditional to modern agriculture their total operation changes. One of the important decisions they have to make during this period is which fertilizer to apply and how much. An important ...
Report
Statistical genetic theory and procedures useful in studying varieties and inter-varietal crosses in maize
(CIMMYT, 1966)
An understanding of the fundamental nature of gene action involved in the phenomenon or heterosis and in the inheritance of quantitative characters in general is very important to the plant breeder. Although many questions ...
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Results of the second International Spring Wheat Yield Nursery, 1965-1966
(CIMMYT, 1968)
For the past several years the Rockefeller Foundation and later the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has prepared and coordinated a series of international yield trials in spring wheats. Originally ...
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Results of the third Near East American Spring Wheat Yield Nursery, 1963-1965
(CIMMYT, 1966)
The cooperative Food and Agriculture Organization-Rockefeller Foundation, Near East-American Spring Wheat Yield Nursery originated as an outgrowth of a recommendation made by Dr. Jose Vallega (formerly with the Ministry ...
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Results of the fourth Inter-American Spring Wheat Yield Nursery 1963-1964
(CIMMYT, 1967)
Prior to 1960. a number of scientists who had had occasion to stqdy uniform sets of material such as the International Rust Nursery of the United States Department of Agriculture. noticed that, apart from disease reaction. ...
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Results of the first International Spring Wheat Yield Nursery 1964-1965
(CIMMYT, 1968)
Adaptation is perhaps the most elusive concept in plant breeding. Not only is there surprisingly little information concerning the performance of varieties over a broad range of environments in even the major crop plants, ...
Report
Hybrid wheats: their development and food potential
(CIMMYT, 1967)
There is no general overproduction of wheat in the world today. However, since the termination of World War II a few countries, such as the U.S.A., Canada, Australia and Argentina, either temporarily or over a period of ...