Plant breeding innovations
11 February 2022, Mexico: What is plant breeding? – Emerging in the last 120 years, science-based plant breeding begins by creating
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New direction in research for advancing gender-responsive maize breeding
11 February 2022, India: New improved maize varieties may fall short in meeting the needs of women and the poorest of
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New publications: Genome-wide breeding to curtail wheat blast
28 January 2022, Bangladesh: A recent publication in the journal Frontiers of Plant Science provides results of the first-ever study to test genomic selection in
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Wheat titan honored posthumously by India
27 January 2022, India: India has conferred posthumously upon Sanjaya Rajaram, 2014 World Food Prize laureate and former wheat breeder and Director of the
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Climate change slows wheat breeding progress for yield and wide adaptation, new study finds
22 January 2022, Mexico: Nearly four decades of repeated crossing and selection for heat and drought tolerance have greatly improved the climate
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Fruits and vegetables are essential, but there are three reasons why it takes cereals to feed the world
22 January 2022, India: Like many development research and funding organizations, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) is emphasizing
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New grafting technique could combat the disease threatening Cavendish bananas
24 December 2021, Mexico: Grafting is the technique of joining the shoot of one plant with the root of another,
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Mexico’s seed producers honor CIMMYT work to breed and spread high-yield maize
Seed producers association lauds the research and development support behind productive, resilient maize varieties and hybrids grown on more than
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2021 GAP Report endorses CIMMYT’s integrated agri-food systems methodology
07 December 2021, Mexico: The 2021 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Report warns that farmers and food workers globally face the intimidating
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Science, technology and farmers, the three pillars of CIMMYT at COP26
04 December 2021, UK: At global climate summit, CIMMYT scientists share adaptation and mitigation solutions for farmers, and call for increased
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