July 2009 – CIMMYT knowledge center blog

Month: July 2009

New book in the library: Breeding major food staples

Written on July 31, 2009. Posted in New Acquisitions.

As the world’s population increases the need to produce greater quantities of major staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, potato, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, barley, and banana in order to sufficiently feed the people of the world continues to grow. Breeding Major Food Staples covers improving...

New book in the library: Wheat Science and Trade

Written on July 17, 2009. Posted in New Acquisitions.

Wheat: Science and Trade is an up-to-date, comprehensive reference work designed to expand the current body of knowledge on this staple crop, incorporating new information made available by genetic advances, improvements in the understanding of wheat’s biology, and changes in the wheat trade...

New CIMMYT publication: Wheat Facts and Futures 2009

Written on July 2, 2009. Posted in CIMMYT Publications.

Dixon, John ; Braun, Hans-Joachim ; Kosina, Petr ; Crouch, Jonathan (2009). Wheat Facts and Futures 2009. CIMMYT. Mexico. For nearly half a century, the international wheat breeding system has delivered improved high yielding varieties of wheat that created (along with rice) the Green Revolution...