Wheat Breeding at CIMMYT


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A guide to the CIMMYT crop management and physiology subprogram


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Strategic plan; External program review (EPR); Five-year plan; Currentactivities; Future issues; Acknowledgments; History of wheat crop management and physiology research (CMP) at CIMMYT/Mexico; Background; Evolution of CMP research objectives; Achievements; Research highlights; Support to trial and nursery management; Investigations of the agronomy of new materials; Development of screening techniques for abiotic stresses; Interface with agronomy and pathology; On-farm trials; Nitrogen trials; Organic and inorganic fertilization of wheat; Drought responses; Physiology of yield potential; Heat stress responses; Present focus of CMP strategic research at CIMMYT; Component agronomy; Sustainability of major wheat cropping systems; Pakistan: a foundation for strategic research; Rice-wheat system: the CIMMYT CMP wheat program in South Asia; Soybean-wheat system: Southern cone; Sustaining wheat cropping systems of tropical highlands: a case study of wheat-maize in MexicoSupport to breeding; Physiology and agronomy of wheat grown in environments with supra-optimal temperatures (ME5); Morpho-physiological traits of adaptation in wheat; Agronomic support for management of CIMMYT wheat program trials and nurseries at experiment stations in Mexico, Adaptive crop management research; East Africa cereals program-wheat; Bangladesh wheat program; Crop management research (CMR) training; Types of courses.
















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.