breeding

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Breeders are developing wheat varieties that have stable grain yield under low-water and high-temperature conditions.

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Modern phenotyping tools are crucial for crop improvement and breeders can profit much more from them.

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Piloting the system in will begin in 2020, with more advanced functions to follow in the next three years.

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Growing the right wheat varieties is necessary to nutritiously feed a growing population in the context of environmental stress.

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Experts work together at hackathon to develop Enterprise Breeding System that can serve CGIAR organizations and national agricultural research programs.

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Researchers present highlights from 40 years of collaboration on wheat genomics, breeding for disease resistance and quality improvement.

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CIMMYT wheat breeder supports smallholder farmers without access to a diversified diet by improving nutritional quality in wheat.

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Researchers found farmers who increased both the area growing resistant varieties and the number of wheat varieties grown per season saw the biggest yield increases.

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A demand-driven, multi-lens approach ensures the best maize varieties are available to seed companies and farmers.

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International gathering highlights cutting edge efforts to improve yields, nutrition, and climate change resilience of a globally vital staple food.

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The manual covers field site selection, effects of weather, crop management and other factors to standardize the required intensity, timing and uniformity of imposed drought stress during field trials.

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Farmers boost their climate resilience and make money as they phase out a 25-year-old maize variety and replace it with drought-tolerant BH661 seeds.

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CIMMYT’s five agricultural research stations in Mexico are instrumental for researchers’ work to develop innovative crops and sustainable farming systems worldwide.

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Study results underscore the value of CIMMYT’s breeding programs.

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CIMMYT is offering a new set of improved maize hybrids to partners, to scale up production for farmers in these areas.