March 2010 – CIMMYT knowledge center blog

Month: March 2010

Molecular characterization of soil bacterial communities in contrasting zero tillage systems

Written on March 22, 2010. Posted in Journal Articles.

Published in Plant and Soil 329(1-2): 127-137 Molecular characterization of soil bacterial communities in contrasting zero tillage systems Javier A. Ceja-Navarro, Flor N. Rivera, Leonardo Patiño-Zúñiga, Bram Govaerts, Rodolfo Marsch, Antón Vila-Sanjurjo and Luc Dendooven It is well known that agricultural...

New book in the Library: Dictionary of Plant Breeding, Second Edition

Written on March 22, 2010. Posted in New Acquisitions.

By Rolf H. J. Schlegel ISBN: 978-1-4398-0242-7 Arguably one of the oldest scientific traditions, plant breeding began in Neolithic times, with methods as simple as saving the seeds of desirable plants and sowing them later. It was not until the re-encounter with Mendel’s discoveries thousands of years...