Authors of a recent Crop Science article leveraged unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to record the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), a measure of plant health, at the seed increase stage of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center’s (CIMMYT) wheat breeding program.
Read more here: https://www.sciencecodex.com/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-help-wheat-breeders-655650
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Wheat physiologist Carolina Rivera shares what it is like to be a woman in agricultural science working on one of the world’s biggest problems — how to feed a growing planet.
Innovations
Growing the right wheat varieties is necessary to nutritiously feed a growing population in the context of environmental stress.
Environmental health and biodiversity
Source: World Grain (27 Aug 2020)
Experts from around the world will meet to discuss the most pressing challenges facing global wheat security.