June 2015 – CIMMYT knowledge center blog

Exploiting genetic diversity from landraces in wheat breeding for adaptation to climate change

Written on June 1, 2015. Posted in Journal Articles.

Authors: Lopes, M.S., El-Basyoni, I., Baenziger, P.S., Sukhwinder-Singh, Royo, C., Ozbek, K., Aktas, H., Ozer, E., Ozdemir, F., Manickavelu, A., Ban, T., Vikram, P. Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, In press. Climate change has generated unpredictability in the timing and amount...

Ex ante welfare analysis of technological change: the case of nitrogen efficient maize for african soils

Written on June 1, 2015. Posted in Journal Articles.

Authors: Kostandini, G., La Rovere, R., Guo, Z. Published in: Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2015, vol. 0, no. 0, p. 1-22 This study evaluates the potential impacts of the Improved Maize for African Soils (IMAS) project in two countries of Africa: Kenya and South Africa. The IMAS...

A high density GBS map of bread wheat and its application for dissecting complex disease resistance traits

Written on June 1, 2015. Posted in Journal Articles.

Authors: Huihui Li, Vikram, P., Singh, R.P., Carling, J., Song, J., Burgueño, J., Bhavani, S., Huerta Espino, J., Payne, T.S., Sehgal, D., Wenzl, P., Sukhwinder-Singh. Published in: BMC Genomics, 16: 216, 2015. Background: Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) is a high-throughput genotyping approach...

Month: June 2015

Exploiting genetic diversity from landraces in wheat breeding for adaptation to climate change

Ex ante welfare analysis of technological change: the case of nitrogen efficient maize for african soils

A high density GBS map of bread wheat and its application for dissecting complex disease resistance traits