SIDU + ISO = Quality assured
The Seed Health Laboratory, part of CIMMYT's Seed Inspection and Distribution Unit (SIDU) has become the first in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) to gain International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification.
http://www.cimmyt.org/english/wps/news/2007/apr/siduISO.htm

Borlaug: The commitment continues
Having just celebrated his 93rd birthday, the man who was at the heart of the creation of CIMMYT, Dr Norman Borlaug, visits the Yaqui Valley to meet his old friends: the farmers with whom he worked 60 years ago, the first beneficiaries of what we call the Green Revolution in agriculture. Includes video!
http://www.cimmyt.org/english/wps/news/2007/apr/BorlaugCommitment.htm

Drilling down into diversity: DNA fingerprinting for crop plants
The promise of using DNA tools to characterize heterogeneous populations of tropical crops is finally being realized, with help from CIMMYT and partners.
http://www.cimmyt.org/english/wps/news/2007/apr/dnaFingerprint.htm

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