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May 09
CIMMYT E-News, vol 6 no. 3, April 2009:
- Maize in Kenya: The search
for a successful subsidy
April 09
Drought-Tolerant
Maize for Africa Initiative demonstrates a joint commitment to
protect Africa’s maize crop from drought and other threats
Getting quality seed to
maize farmers in eastern and southern Africa
February 09
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
6 no 2 - February 2009
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Scientists uncover DNA sequence of key wheat disease resistance gene
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket: Bangladesh tries maize cropping
for feed
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CIMMYT science snapshots
Scientists gather in
cradle of the Green Revolution to protect global food security from new
strain of stem rust
January 09
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
6 no 1 - January 2009
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CIMMYT revitalizes its leadership in socioeconomics and agronomy
research
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Moving uphill: Maize's growing role in Ethiopia
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Genetic modification—yes or no? London Science Museum stages global
debate
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CIMMYT science snapshots
December 08
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 12
- December 2008
- Report from the field:
Wheat stem rust resistance screening at Njoro, Kenya
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Odds on for good science: Statistician wins major agricultural research
award
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CIMMYT science snapshots
November 08
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 11
- November 2008
- Improved maize
varieties and partnerships welcomed in Bhutanx
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Science for farmers and a better food future: CIMMYT’s 2007-2008 Annual
Report
October 08
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 10
- October 2008
- Maize without
borders: Reforming maize seed sector policies to meet farmers' needs in
Africax
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Fostering global food security for wheat: No country is an island
Wheat genetic resources
enhancement by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
(CIMMYT)
September 08
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 9
- September 2008
- Global partnership
protects Africa's maize from Striga, a deadly parasitic plant
- Progress in breeding
some staple crops with high iron content advances the fight against
micronutrient malnutrition in tropical Africa and Asia
August 08
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 8
- August 2008
- The journey of a
seed
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Bangladesh and CIMMYT: Decades of partnership, commitment, and
achievement
July 08
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 7
- July 2008
- More nutritious maize
boosts growth of children in rural Ethiopia
- Unearthing hidden
impacts of CIMMYT's work: Support documented for more than 800 thesis
students
June 08
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 6
- June 2008
- Earliest Mexican wheats
supply latest useful traits
May 08
CIMMYT e-newsletter vol
5 no 5
- May 2008
- Doubled haploids speed
development of drought tolerant maize for Africa
- Asian maize network
tackles drought
April 08
E-newsletter vol
5 no
4
- April 2008
- Home-grown maize seed
solutions in southern and central Africa
New maize and new
friendships to beat Thai drought
February 08
E-newsletter vol
5 no
2
- February 2008
- CIMMYT helps farmers till less, reap more in Chiapas, Mexico
- Getting quality seed to maize farmers in eastern and southern Africa
- A boost for maize in the State of Mexico
Getting quality seed to
maize farmers in eastern and southern Africa
January 08
Keeping maize and wheat
seed safe against a global catastrophe
Partners for life:
CIMMYT and maize researchers in eastern Africa
E-newsletter vol
5 no
1
- January 2008
- Keeping maize and wheat seed safe against a global catastrophe
- Partners for life: CIMMYT and maize researchers in eastern Africa
- Farmers in India and Pakistan reap the benefits of sowing without
tillage
December 07
E-newsletter vol 4 no
12
- December 2007
- Quality and quantity: China-CIMMYT wheats take prize
- Maize moves uphill in Colombia
Building
disease-beating wheat
Chinese Academy of
Agricultural Sciences and CIMMYT team up to confront climate change and
new subspecies of wheat stem rust
November 07
E-newsletter vol 4 no
11
- November 2007
- Turning on the power: New maize protein quality test for developing
country labs
- Iran can serve the world in wheat breeding
- New maize hybrid in western Kenya: The farmers speak
October 07
Using maize seeds
instead of leaves to determine the genetic makeup of maize
New Kenyan maize variety
resistant to the larger grain borer, a pest that destroys a third of
Kenya's maize crop every year
Dr Thomas Lumpkin to be
the new Director General of the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
September 07
E-newsletter vol 4 no 9
- September 2007
- The larger grain borer is taking a beating from CIMMYT breeders in
Kenya
- Battle to prevent a global wheat crop catastrophe from an unchecked
airborne fungus
- The fates of farmers and maize landraces in the central highlands of
Mexico
August 07
The genetic revolution
continues at CIMMYT - Gift from DuPont helps CIMMYT scientists look for
genes in wheat and maize, and gives breeders an affordable tool to help
select the best
Pride and pragmatism
sustain a giant Mexican maize
July 07
Gene bank math: applying
sophisticated statistics and population genetics to the management of
seed collections in gene banks
June 07
Better varieties, better lives: success
in the Andes
Finding genes faster
Genes explain the amazing
global spread of maize
May 07
Resistance to Fusarium
diseases in wheat and barley
April 07
CIMMYT e-News
- CIMMYT’s seed health
laboratory obtains ISA certification
- Dr Norman Borlaug: The
commitment continues
- Drilling down into
diversity: DNA fingerprinting for crop plants
March 07
CIMMYT e-News
- Seeing seed: farmers’
perspectives
- Mexican durum wheat
farmers get their yield back and more
February 07
CIMMYT newsletter:
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Breeding
knowledge combined with cutting-edge laboratory analysis will
produce maize rich in vital nutrients
- On
the front line of the battle to prevent a potential
multi-billion dollar crop disaster for the world
January 07
CIMMYT newsletter:
- Giving
African farmers room to grow
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Small seed with
a big footprint: Western Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Nepal
Enhanced,
drought-tolerant maize will give African farmers options, even
with global warming
Dangerous wheat
disease jumps Red Sea - Devastating fungal pathogen spreads from
eastern Africa to Yemen, following path scientists predicted
December 06
CIMMYT newsletter:
- Three decades of
research into drought tolerant maize by CIMMYT and a very strong
set of partnerships has made a difference in the lives of
African farmers
- Wheat lines
that resisted virulent stem rust last season have now succumbed
November 06
CIMMYT newsletter:
- New life for old
varieties
- Is native maize
diversity being lost in Mexico?
October 06
CIMMYT newsletter:
- The wheat rust threat
- Global Rust Initiative tackles a clearly present danger
- The wheat goes on at
CIMMYT
- Helping the world
tame wild wheat
DuPont and CIMMYT
announce $1.3 million maize collaboration for Africa - Public-private
partnership to speed product development
September 06
CIMMYT researchers say
participatory research supports their achievements
Nepal Hill Maize
Research Project reaches out to Nepal’s poorest farmers with new
varieties
August 06
CIMMYT training achieves
its goals
The maize with the beans
inside: QPM gathers a following in Kenya
July 06
Steady as she goes:
Improved maize and wheat varieties actually lower farmers’ risks
June 06
The
Asian Maize Biotechnology Network (AMBIONET):
a model for strengthening national agricultural research systems
New study shows genetic
diversity in CIMMYT wheat now as high as it was before the Green
Revolution
In drought wars, stress
tolerant maize will make a difference
CIMMYT Business Plan
2006-2010 - Translating the Vision of Seeds of Innovation into a Vibrant
Work Plan
May 06
Safe in the bank?
Conserving the genetic heritage of maize
Big bang from world wheat
breeding bucks
April 06
Maize transforms
landscapes and livelihoods in Bangladesh
Laboratory protocols:
CIMMYT Applied Molecular Genetics Laboratory
March 06
CIMMYT brings the
best in wheat
BASF forms
public-private partnership with CIMMYT
BASF und CIMMYT vereinbaren Public Private Partnership
Asian Development Bank
funded project to develop corn varieties suited for drought-prone areas
February 06
Resource-poor Mexican
farmers grow more “improved” maize than you think
January 06
CIMMYT develops
herbicide resistant maize hybrids
Molecular detection
tools for African maize breeders
Conservation by the
numbers: Reducing genetic drift in crop gene bank collections
Crop development efforts
get major boost: CIMMYT and IRRI scientists combine computing power to
help the world's rice, wheat and maize farmers
ICARDA/CIMMYT wheat
improvement program for dry areas
December 05
African maize farmers learn that bug
havens keep maize pest-proof
New elite maize lines
from CIMMYT offer enhanced nutrition and disease resistance
CIMMYT
plant pathologist
Dr. Ravi Singh named
outstanding CGIAR scientist for 2005
November 05
Wheat exchange network
breeds new life into varietal development:
Kazakhstan and Siberia connect with
CIMMYT to improve their wheat
CIMMYT and partners in Nepal
make progress against foliar blight, a disease in wheat that disguises
itself as drought
October 05
The color orange: key to
more nutritious maize?
“Hot spots” in maize for
dry regions in the developing world
Age old wheats in the
new world of plant breeding
September 05
CIMMYT’s wheat quality
lab expands and upgrades to meet growing demand of wheat for diverse
food uses
The world’s wheat crop
is under threat from new strain of wheat stem rust
Global effort aims to
tackle deadly wheat fungus
August 05
Experimental auctions in
Kenya gauge farmer interest in vitamin A-enriched maize
Wheat in peril from stem
rust outbreak, expert panel warns
New
IRRI-CIMMYT alliance
takes shape, announces three
new initiatives
July 05
Jonathan Crouch, director
of CIMMYT’s Genetic Resources Program
A Kazakh farmer wins by
adopting CIMMYT-led technology
Kenya launches Clearfield®
technology for Striga weed control
Scientists at University of
Nottingham and CIMMYT to develop higher yielding wheat varieties for the
UK
CIMMYT Trustee wins a prize
for his work improving yields and zinc concentration in wheat
A new study reports on the
extensive use and benefits of CIMMYT wheat
June 05
IRRI-CIMMYT Alliance announces three important new initiatives
GRDC to strengthen its
wheat research alliance with CIMMYT
A maize for farmers on the
edge: CIMMYT-Peru maize, Marginal 28,
outstrips expectations for farmers in Peru
Kenya plants transgenic
maize to help farmers get rid of insect
May 05
Quality protein maize in
Northwestern India: full of protein and potential
Wheat shuttle breeding:
cleared for flight, with minor course corrections
March 05
CIMMYT sows second field
trial of promising transgenic drought tolerant wheat
February 05
CIMMYT research team aim
is to breed high yielding maize that also resists infection by
Aspergillus flavus
The call for maize mounts
in Asia
New publication
presents outcomes of the eighth Asian Regional Maize Workshop
January 05
New IRRI-CIMMYT alliance
formed to fight poverty and strengthen food security in the developing
world
December 04
CIMMYT publishes 4th
edition of 'Maize Diseases: A Guide for Field Identification'
Insect resistant maize
in Africa moves forward
UK-CIMMYT network helps
wheat thrive
New greenhouse supports
research on wheat diseases in Nepal
November 04
CIMMYT unveils
significant addition to the field of DNA fingerprinting for wheat and
maize
Revised IRMA II project
(Insect Resistant Maize for Africa) plan
stresses regulatory issues and new management structure
Collaboration between
several CGIAR centers to tackle seed
supply issues in Southern Africa
A new management team
to lead CIMMYT research
Harnessing the power of
partnership in wheat improvement
CGIAR draft
guidelines for GMO detection in genebanks
Maintaining the genetic
integrity of CIMMYT seed collections: new maize and wheat gene bank
operations manual
September 04
CIMMYT’s guiding
principles for developing and deploying genetically engineered maize and
wheat varieties
Weighing the pros and
cons of genetically modified crops in Africa
Results of CIMMYT's
transgenic wheat trial look promising
Maize seed production
course at CIMMYT aims to boost small producers
Traditional farmers in
Kazakhstan evaluate new technologies and wheat varieties
Mexican connection
helps boost early maturity in Canadian wheat
August 04
Leaf rust
resistance breeding reaps great benefits
Wild wheat
relatives help boost genetic diversity
CIMMYT-KARI project takes
historic step in Kenyan agriculture
July 04
New Japan – CIMMYT project hunts
for genes to fight
disease
June 04
CIMMYT
gene flow study explores how farmers keep
maize thriving and
changing
Two new
appointments complete
CIMMYT’s senior management team
Iran and CIMMYT sign
agreement to open CIMMYT office in Iran
May 04
New tools match wheat
varieties to growing environments
March 04
In quest for
drought-tolerant varieties, CIMMYT sows first transgenic
wheat field trials in
Mexico
GRDC and CIMMYT in
international wheat breeding alliance
November 03
CIMMYT researcher Carlos
de Leon honored for increasing maize productivity in South America
October 03
CGIAR “Outstanding
Scientist” award to researcher who builds "bridges" to protect wheat
CIMMYT Director General
responds to erroneous ETC statements
CIMMYT moves forward on
transgene detection issues
August 03
Super wheat sown
with alliance in Australia
March 03
Search for locally suitable
insect resistant maize in Kenya
February
03
A new wheat variety for the
farmers of Georgia
Drought-resistant GM
crops: a promising future
A wheat variety from
Mexico brightens the prospects of Uzbek farmers
Variedad de trigo
generada en México mejora las perspectivas de los agricultores uzbkekos
July 02
New witchweed-fighting method developed by CIMMYT and Weizmann Institute
Scientist - Technique could dramatically diminish hunger in Africa
May 02
Transgenic maize in Mexico: facts and future research needs
March 02
CIMMYT names new Directory
General
February
02
CIMMYT responds to
"Joint Statement" on genetically modified maize in Mexico
Further tests at CIMMYT find no presence of promoter associated with
transgenes in Mexican landraces in gene bank (link to CIMMYT
website)
December
01
Further tests at CIMMYT
find no presence of promoter associated with transgenes in Mexican
landraces in gene bank or from recent field collections
October 01
Initial tests find
Mexican landraces in CIMMYT gene bank free of promoter associated with
transgenes
Maize diversity in
Oaxaca, Mexico: simple questions but no easy answers
CIMMYT response to
discovery of transgenic maize growing in Mexico
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