Management and use of international trial data for improving breeding efficiency


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Acronyms/abbreviations used in this report; Workshop participants; Initial discussion; Shaping the second revolution-an historical perspective on international trials; Statistical analysis of international yield trial data in ICARDA's cereal program; AMMI analysis of yield trialsLong-term similarity of environments in the ISWYN; Using the shifted multiplicative model (SHMM) to identify subsets of environments withoutgenotypic rank change: II. Clustering method; Analysis of internationalnursery data-results and implications for international nursery designUpdate on the data management systems (DMS) for the wheat program; Useof relational data bases in wheat breeding; Yield trial system/international nursery logistics; General discussion/conclusions/actions to betaken.







Wheat Breeding at CIMMYT


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Fusarium head scab of wheat (Fusarium graminearum Schwabe)


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Economic importance; Scab-producing organisms; Etiology; Epidemiology;Survival of the inoculum source; Types of inoculum; Inoculum production and dispersal; Hosts; Spike infection and colonization; Symptoms; Toxin production; Evaluating the disease and estimating crop losses; Disease scoring; Estimating crop losses; Controle measures; Disease resistance; Chemical control; Cultural control.