Year: 2022

Features

tag icon Environmental health and biodiversity

CIMMYT scientists in Turkey investigated the effect of soil borne diseases individually and in combination with drought on morphological and physiological traits in wheat germplasm.

Features

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Increasingly unpredictable weather poses challenges for breeding widely-adapted wheat lines, but stress tolerance breeding is boosting wheat’s hardiness under rising temperatures.

Blogs

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

In addition to macronutrients and micronutrients, staple cereals are important sources of bioactive food components.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: Forbes (29 Dec 2022)

Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur, a Principal Scientist at CIMMYT, says aflatoxin, a toxin produced from soil fungus and found in groundnuts like peanuts, is a serious public health and food safety problem around the globe.