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Conference Proceedings
Septoria and stagonospora diseases of cereals: a compilation of global research
(CIMMYT, 1999)
In the mid-1970s the idea of holding a septoria workshop began to take hold among a small group of scientists in the USA. They were interested in exchanging ideas and finding ways to manage the septoria diseases that affect ...
Book
New wheats for a secure, sustainable future
(CIMMYT, 1999)
This paper reviews strategies used by CIMMYT and its partners to develop sustainable wheat production systems for favored and marginal areas. These strategies aim to achieve an optimal combination of the best genotypes ...
Book
Bread wheat, durum wheat, and synthetic hexaploid wheat in saline and non-saline soils
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Genetic improvement of crops for salt tolerance will become ever more important as it becomes necessary to cultivate marginal soils. The work reported here evaluated the intra- and interspecific variability in yield response ...
Conference Proceedings
The Tenth regional wheat workshop: for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Workshop of The Tenth Regional Wheat Workshop: For Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, held in University ofStellenbosch, South Africa, 14 - 18 September, 1998.
Book
Sources of productivity growth in wheat: A review of recent performance and medium-to long-term prospects
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Sources of yield growth in wheat are investigated based on a stylized framework of technical change. Evidence suggests that the relative contribution of input intensification to yield growth has diminished in recent years ...
Book
Using economics to explain spatial diversity in a wheat crop: examples from Australia and China
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Spatial diversity indicators may serve an important function for policymakers as they seek to manage crop genetic diversity and potential externalities associated with diffusion of some types of genetically improved crops. ...
Research Report
The global wheat improvement system: prospects for enhancing efficiency in the presence of spillovers
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Through the global analysis and country-level case studies, this report analyzes the efficiency of investments in wheat improvement research at a disaggregated level and explores a range of options for restructuring research ...
Book
Changing competitiveness of the wheat sector of Kazakhstan and sources of future productivity growth
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Economic incentives in Kazakhstan have been radically reshaped since the Soviet era ended in 1991. In the first phase of transition, the economy and agricultural sectors declined by 40-50%. Overall economic growth refused ...
Book
Resultados del primero y segundo vivero de trigos invernales facultativos del Cono Sur (TIFCOS)
(INIA; CIMMYT, 1999)
Los trigos facultativos (alternativos) e invernales cubren una gran parte de la superficie sembrada con este cultivo en la parte sur del Cono Sur. además de la producción de grano en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay, los trigos ...
Article
Effect of nitrogen fertiliser applied to tef on the yield and N response of succeeding tef and durum wheat on a highland vertisol
(African Crop Science Society, 1999)
A trial was conducted on an Ethiopian Vertisol from 1990 to 1995 to determine the residual effect of fertiliser N applied to tef (Eragrostis tef) following chickpea (Cicer arietinum) on the grain and straw yield, N content, ...