Year: 2019
Arun Kumar Joshi
Ethiopia calls for continued collaboration to increase wheat production and meet nutritional and food security
Capacity development
CIMMYT and EIAR officially closed a wheat seed scaling project that benefitted 131,132 households.
Wheat gene map to help ‘feed the world’
Innovations
Source: BBC News (1 Mar 2019)
CIMMYT’s head of wheat research Ravi Singh commented on the publication of the wheat gene map.
Q&A with 2019 Women in Triticum awardee Carolina Rivera
Nutrition, health and food security
CIMMYT scientist Carolina Rivera is one of the six recipients of the 2019 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career Award.
Innovative irrigation promises “more crop per drop” for India’s water-stressed cereals
Climate adaptation and mitigation
A study demonstrates how rice and wheat can be grown using 40 percent less water.
CIMMYT and UAS-Bangalore to establish a maize doubled haploid facility in Karnataka, India
Nutrition, health and food security
Occupying 12 acres of land, the facility is expected to produce at least 30,000 DH lines a year.
CIMMYT and Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore to establish a maize doubled haploid facility in Karnataka, India
Innovations
Source: SeedQuest (20 Mar 2019)
The maize DH facility, funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Maize, has the potential to accelerate maize breeding and hybrid development in Asia.
New publications: Biofortification of maize with provitamin A can reduce aflatoxin load
Nutrition, health and food security
This research is especially significant for countries where the health burdens of exposure to aflatoxin and prevalence of vitamin A deficiency converge with high rates of maize consumption.
