CIMMYT and John Innes Centre announce strategic collaboration on wheat research |
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Photo: Kevin Pixley/CIMMYT |
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An important goal of the collaboration between CIMMYT and John Innes Centre is to expand the impact of the joint research breakthroughs through knowledge sharing and capacity development.
Scientists from CIMMYT and JIC will work jointly to apply cutting-edge approaches to wheat improvement, including:
- developing and deploying new molecular markers for yield, resilience and nutritional traits in wheat to facilitate deploying genomic breeding approaches using data on the plant’s genetic makeup to improve breeding speed and accuracy;
- generating, sharing and exploiting the diversity of wheat genetic material produced during crossing and identified in seed banks;
- pursuing new technologies and approaches that increase breeding efficiency to introduce improved traits into new wheat varieties; and
- developing improved technologies for rapid disease diagnostics and surveillance.
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Third International Wheat Congress to be held in Australia
News: Wheat Initiative
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Adelaide has been chosen as host city for the third International Wheat Congress, taking place in 2024. The IWC brings together wheat researchers to share research and knowledge regarding wheat diversity, genetic resources, and challenges in the future. |
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Interview with Dave Hodson on the importance of biodiversity
News: The Counter
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Dave Hodson, a senior scientist at CIMMYT, recently spoke about the importance of biodiversity in agriculture and parallels with COVID-19 to help protect the world's wheat. |
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How a wheat disease resistance gene atlas could lift up wheat breeding |
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The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium organized a webinar entitled “How a wheat disease resistance gene atlas could lift up wheat breeding” presented by Amber Hafeez from the John Innes Centre.
A wheat gene atlas would provide breeders with the tools and resources necessary to respond to virulence changes in pathogen populations as quickly as possible.
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Long search finds grain of hope in the glume
News: John Innes Centre
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Researchers have found the elusive genetic element controlling the elongated grains and glumes of a wheat variety identified by the renowned botanist Carl Linnaeus more than 250 years ago.
The findings relating to Polish wheat, Triticum polonicum, could translate into genetic improvements and productivity in the field.
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Target Population of Environments for Wheat Breeding in India: Definition, Prediction and Genetic Gains
Crespo-Herrera Leonardo Abdiel, Crossa Jose, Huerta-Espino Julio, Mondal Suchismita, Velu Govindan, Juliana Philomin, Vargas Mateo, Pérez-Rodríguez Paulino, Joshi Arun Kumar, Braun Hans Joachim, Singh Ravi Prakash
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Wheat gene Sr60 encodes a protein with two putative kinase domains that confers resistance to stem rust |
Shisheng Chen, Matthew N. Rouse, Wenjun Zhang, Xiaoqin Zhang, Yan Guo, Jordan Briggs, Jorge Dubcovsky
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Weather-data-based model: an approach for forecasting leaf and stripe rust on winter wheat |
Victor M. Rodríguez-Moreno, Alejandro Jiménez-Lagunes, Juan Estrada-Avalos, Jorge E. Mauricio-Ruvalcaba, José S. Padilla-Ramírez
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Climate impact and adaptation to heat and drought stress of regional and global wheat production
Diego N L Pequeno, Ixchel M Hernández-Ochoa, Matthew Reynolds, Kai Sonder, Anabel MoleroMilan, Richard D Robertson, Marta S Lopes, Wei Xiong, Martin Kropff and Senthold Asseng
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Comparing the potential of marker-assisted selection and genomic prediction for improving rust resistance in hybrid wheat |
Beukert, U. ; Thorwarth, P. ; Zhao YuSheng ; Longin, C. F. H. ; Serfling, A. ; Ordon, F. ; Reif, J. C.
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"Tremendous selection pressure for stripe rust this year as we had cool climate this April and early May too." - @Shabirwani20 from Twitter
Shabir Hussain Wani, assistant professor at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Khudwani Kashmir India.
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