Women in Triticum Winners |
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The BGRI is thrilled to announce the 2021 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career and Mentor awardees honoring wheat scientists working to protect food security around the world. |
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Nepal
2021 Early Career Award Winner
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Syria
2021 Early Career Award Winner
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Pakistan
2021 Early Career Award Winner
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United States
2021 Early Career Award Winner
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Zambia
2021 Early Career Award Winner
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United Kingdom
2021 Mentor Award Winner
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Credit: REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
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New zinc-fortified wheat set for global expansion to combat malnutrition
News: Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat for
Improved Livelihoods (AGG)
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Scientists at a leading global grains research institute expect to sharply ramp up new wheat varieties enriched with zinc that can boost the essential mineral for millions of poor people with deficient diets, the institute's head told Reuters.
Martin Kropff, director general of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), said he expects the newly-developed high-zinc wheat to make up at least 80% of varieties distributed worldwide over the next ten years, up from about 9% currently.
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Sreya Ghosh named to Forbes 30 under 30
News: Forbes
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2018 Women in Triticum winner Sreya Ghosh, researcher at the John Innes Centre, was named to Forbes 30 under 30 for Science and Healthcare. Among her accomplishments, Sreya was cited for her work in developing a low-cost speed breeding cabinet: GrowCab
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New Wheat Rust Genomics Website Launched
News: BGRI
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A wheat rust genomics website has been launched as a hub of genomic data and resources for the notorious wheat rust pathogens. This new website brings together all current genomic resources and tools available for the three wheat rust pathogens: Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (causing stem or black rust) P. striiformis f. sp. tritici (stripe or yellow rust) and P. triticina (leaf or brown rust). It also provides a forum to connect researchers who may have fungal isolates they would like to share with those interested in collaborating to sequence them.
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Borlaug 100 Smashes Yield Record in Queensland Field
News: Grain Central
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A crop of Borlaug 100 wheat grown at Dalby on the Darling Downs has set a new record of 8.72 tonnes per hectare in the Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland (RASQ) Crop Competition. |
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Julie Borlaug Joins World Food Prize Foundation Council of Advisors
News: The World Food Prize
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The World Food Prize Foundation announced that Julie Borlaug, President of the Borlaug Foundation and Vice President of External Relations for Inari, has joined the Council of Advisors.
“Ms. Borlaug brings a unique background and point of view to this distinguished group," said Barbara Stinson, President of the World Food Prize Foundation. "Her decades of experience as a leader in the field of global agriculture, uplifting voices from a broad spectrum of backgrounds, will be an essential asset as we continue to expand the Foundation’s activities.”
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QTL mapping of resistance to UG99 and other stem rust pathogen races in bread wheat |
Silvina Baraibar, Richard García, Paula Silva, Bettina Lado, Ariel Castro, Lucía Gutiérrez, Monika Kavanová, Martín Quincke, Sridhar Bhavani, Mandeep S. Randhawa & Silvia Germán
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A novel cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase gene, TaCRK2, contributes to leaf rust resistance in wheat |
Jia Gu, Jiawei Sun, Na Liu, Xizhe Sun, Chunji Liu, Lizhu Wu, Gang Liu, Fanli Zeng, Chunyan Hou, Shengfang Han, Wenchao Zhen, Dongmei Wang
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A novel leaf rust resistance gene introgressed from Aegilops markgrafii maps on chromosome arm 2AS of wheat
K. Rani, B. R. Raghu, S. K. Jha, Priyanka Agarwal, Niharika Mallick, M. Niranjana, J. B. Sharma, A. K. Singh, N. K. Sharma, S. Rajkumar, S. M. S. Tomar & Vinod
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