Reduced water availability for irrigation and increasing temperatures are of great concern. These two factors can considerably affect wheat production and reduce grain yields.
Watch CIMMYT Wheat Breeder Suchismita Mondal explain — in just one minute — how breeders are developing wheat varieties that have stable grain yield under low water availability and high temperatures.
Innovations
Growing the right wheat varieties is necessary to nutritiously feed a growing population in the context of environmental stress.
Innovations
Source: BBC News (1 Mar 2019)
CIMMYT’s head of wheat research Ravi Singh commented on the publication of the wheat gene map.
Nutrition, health and food security
Can you imagine a world without maize and wheat? We can’t!
