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 ...

The use of multiline varieties, described elsewhere in this report, offers one excellent option for slowing down the build-up of a rust epidemic and thereby permits the crop to mature without damage. The writer and his ...

This 1978-79 report on maize covers the research and training activities of CIMMYT scientists and presents data from international testing program activities during these years. The progress we report is the result of a ...

This report, intended primarily for our scientific cooperators and for maize workers around the world, presents data from CIMMYT maize research, training, and international testing during the years 1980-81. CIMMYT's research ...

CIMMYT Review 1982 is intended to provide highlights of CIMMYT program activities during 1981 for the informed layman. It is complemented by technical maize and wheat improvement reports, more than a dozen international ...

Significant changes have recently occurred in the CIMMYT leadership. We have lost the services of Dr. KeithW. Finlay, Deputy Director General-Research, and Dr. R. Glenn Anderson, Director of the Wheat Program, who each ...

CIMMYT Review 1980 is intended to provide highlights of CIMMYT program activities during 1979 for the informed laymen. It is complemented by two technical annual reports (maize and wheat), more than a dozen international ...

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 ...

Farmers – particularly smallholders – are where it all starts. Based on field-based evidence and on CIMMYT experiences of nearly 50 years, providing small-scale farmers with high-yielding, disease-resistant and climate-ready ...

The global agriculture environment has been changing before our eyes. Climate change, natural resource degradation and micronutrient defi ciencies pose enormous challenges to food production and human health; markets and ...