Leading Australian farmers visit CIMMYT
David Bonnett (left), CIMMYT wheat geneticist and genetic resources enhancer, talks with leading Australian grain farmers during a visit to the center's Toluca experiment station, discussing CIMMYT’s efforts to increase diversity and improve disease resistance and productivity through wide crosses with ancestors, using re-synthesized breadwheats and translocations from more distant relatives of wheat. CIMMYT hosted the group at Toluca and El Batán between 19 and 22 August 2011, as part of a tour of farms, private and public research institutes and grain processing facilities in Singapore, UK, France, Canada, USA, and Mexico, which was supported by Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). GRDC recognizes CIMMYT's past and current contributions to higher and more stable wheat yields in Australia and invests in CIMMYT research.
Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/index.php/2011/08/key-australian-farmers-....
Leading Australian farmers visit CIMMYT
David Bonnett (left), CIMMYT wheat geneticist and genetic resources enhancer, talks with leading Australian grain farmers during a visit to the center's Toluca experiment station, discussing CIMMYT’s efforts to increase diversity and improve disease resistance and productivity through wide crosses with ancestors, using re-synthesized breadwheats and translocations from more distant relatives of wheat. CIMMYT hosted the group at Toluca and El Batán between 19 and 22 August 2011, as part of a tour of farms, private and public research institutes and grain processing facilities in Singapore, UK, France, Canada, USA, and Mexico, which was supported by Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). GRDC recognizes CIMMYT's past and current contributions to higher and more stable wheat yields in Australia and invests in CIMMYT research.
Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/index.php/2011/08/key-australian-farmers-....