Mike Listman

Mike Listman
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Elite wheat lines from the work are being freely shared with partners worldwide.

Features

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The new farming methods can raise harvests, enrich soils, and capture and conserve moisture.

Videos

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The CIMMYT–China collaboration over four decades has added some 10.7 million additional tons of wheat to China’s national wheat output.

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Successful testing of phone-based groundwater monitoring in the Nepal Terai was described at World Water Week in Stockholm.

Publications

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Protecting farmers from wheat blast, a lethal plant disease, could be made easier through enhanced monitoring and forecasting tools.

Publications

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Climate-food systems research at CIMMYT is informing the decisions of key actors from the scientific, development, and public policy communities.

Press releases

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Cropping diversity, soil-enriching crops, and adding organic material to soils can boost food-crop yields for farmers who can’t apply fertilizer.

Publications

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A team of researchers activates vegetative storage proteins in maize leaves, to stockpile nitrogen reserves for release when plants are hit by drought.

Publications

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Multiple studies show conventional farming practices degrade soils, deplete aquifers and feed rampant greenhouse gas emissions.

Features

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Farming system harnesses the power of biology to rebuild soil organic matter, diversify crop systems, and improve water retention and nutrient uptake.

Explainers

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Over millennia, natural selection and humans have systematically adapted the plant species that provide food and other vital products, changing their physical and genetic makeup for enhanced productivity, nutrition and resilience. Plant breeders apply science to continue improving crop varieties, making them more productive and better adapted to climate extremes, insects, drought and diseases.

Features

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Sanjaya Rajaram, former CIMMYT Wheat Program Director, has been recognized with the Padma Bhushan Award for his contributions to wheat improvement worldwide.

Publications

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Researchers evaluate the use of genomic selection in wheat breeding against deadly fungal disease.

Features

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

Features

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New research uncovers long-term impacts of Green Revolution era productivity, points out lessons for today.