Wheat is grown on more than 200 million hectares worldwide and is a source of food and livelihoods for hundreds of millions in developing countries. Until the advent of science-based agriculture, world wheat harvests were ...

Plants constitute 93 percent of the world's diet. Cereals contribute two-thirds of all food, and among the cereals, wheat is the largest crop. The eight major cereals-namely wheat, maize, rice, barley, sorghum, oats, millet ...

Wheat is the most widely grown cereal grain, occupying 17 % (220 million hectares in 1994) of the cultivated land in the world. Wheat is planted on about 100 million hectares in the developing world, excluding the countries ...

Take a technological breakthrough, add a fortuitous break, and you may get the ingredients for another breakthrough. Can a gene that makes rice immune to rust, the worst disease of wheat, point the way to new strategies ...

Pakistan is working through a quiet crisis that has probably affected daily lives more than even the war on terrorism. Harvests of wheat-the country's main food crop-fell 10% in 2001 due to a prolonged drought. Rice output ...

Winter wheat is one of the most important crops in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Some 5-10 years ago, a well-coordinated network of winter wheat breeders in the region allowed germplasm and information exchange. In some ...

Beginning in the mid 1990s, CIMMYT's involvement in CAC has deepened, especially since the opening of a regional office in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1998. We are actively working on technologies specifically targetting the ...

Report of the CIMMYT Triticale Program, nationally and internationally, regarding the research lines of the program and its improvement.

In recent years, wheat consumption in developing countries has been on the rise. Population growth, urbanization, rising incomes, bread subsidies, and food aid have contributed to escalating demand. During the 1970s, ...