Focusing on food safety, CIMMYT researchers develop experimental maize and wheat varieties that better resist fungal diseases and pests in the field and in storage, as well as cropping and grain storage practices that help ...

The scope of this publication is limited: it covers only journal articles - not conference papers, not book chapters, not newsletters, not theses, not CIMMYT imprints. Thus it represents only part of CIMMYT's published ...

This special report provides a detailed introduction to the three subprograms of the CIMMYT Wheat Program. First published in the late 1980s, the report has been updated regularly as the bread wheat breeding methodology ...

Modernización Sustentable de la Agricultura Tradicional, MasAgro, es el esfuerzo que decidió encabezar el Gobierno mexicano junto con el Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT) para fortalecer la ...

This non-technical annual report is intended primarily for policymakers and members of the donor community. It contains a concise presentation of CIMMYT's research programs in Maize, Wheat, and Economics, as well as a ...

In this century, agricultural productivity in many developing contries increased dramatically, spurring economic growth and improving the well-being of hundreds of millions of the world's poor. As the next millennium ...

The global wheat situation in 1981 was characterized by a continuation of trends note in our introduction to the 1980 CIMMYT Report on Wheat Improvement. Wheat production in the developing countries of the world again ...

Maize; Wheat; Plant breeding; Genetic resources; Innovation adoption; Plant biotechnology; Seed production; Food security; Sustainability; Research policies; Economic analysis; Cropping systems; Agricultural research; ...

We begin our report with examples of innovative efforts to build better plants - new maize and wheat varieties with improved yield potential, greater efficiency in the use of scarce agricultural resources, and stronger ...

To evoke the theme of this Annual Report, our front cover features the phrase "delivering diversity." In one sense this phrase denotes the conveyance of genetic diversity through germplasm dissemination. In a second sense ...