Poor and subsistence farmers, lacking hybrid and improved maize varieties, struggle daily to eke out an existence from low yielding plants that offer little resistance to destructive insects and diseases. In many of the ...

CIMMYT’s germplasm improvement programs rely heavily on the free international exchange of maize and wheat germplasm. To facilitate such exchange, all concerned institutions, cooperators, and regulating authorities must ...

Even for the nonspecialist, maize genetic resources is an Inherently Interesting subject. It has an engaging history, shaped by people of unusual Intelligence and foresight; It Is currently being transformed by exciting ...

Drought is a major problem for the production of the world’s five principal cereals: maize, wheat, rice, pearl millet, and sorghum. Past and current breeding efforts have met the challenge posed by drought with some success. ...

This publication describes progress in collaborative efforts to document, characterize, regenerate, and conserve (both in seed banks and on-farm in situ) maize seed collections from the Americas since 1998. Participants ...

In 2004, CIMMYT restructured its research programs into six new global and ecoregional programs. One of these, the Genetic Resources Program, is now home to the maize and wheat germplasm collections in CIMMYT’s gene bank. ...

This manual describes an approach to the spatial analysis of field experiments based on the software package AS residual maximum likelihood (ASREML; Gilmour et al. 1999). It describes common sources of spatial variation ...

The application of biotechnology and its wide range of tools pose new challenges to governments that require biosafety frameworks be in place for the safe and responsible use of the genetically modified organisms and their ...

Apomixis, the asexual reproduction of plants through seeds, has received increasing attention as technological advances have led to a rapid increase in knowledge about cellular biology, molecular genetics, and the mechanisms ...

With the objective of facilitating researchers of CIMMYT and National Programs to compute the AMMI model and the biplot of multi-environment trials, three programs were written in SAS for computing the AMMI analysis and ...