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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Institution
Section overview
Description
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYt) is an internationally funded, nonprofit scientific research and training organization. Available Information: Annual Reports, Job Opportunities, Research Programs for Maize, Wheat, Economic, Natural Resources, and Applied Biotechnology.
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Abiotic stress tolerant maize for increasing income and food security among the poor in eastern India and Bangladesh
- Developing and disseminating stress tolerant maize for sustainable food security in eastern and central Africa
- Improving field resistance of wheat against Fusarium Head Blight and mitigating the amount of mycotoxin in the grain
- Novel resistance to control wheat blast caused by Magnapothe grisea, a new disease threatening global wheat production
- Precision phenotyping for improving drought stress tolerant maize in southern Asia and eastern Africa
Involved in research projects
- Knowledge-driven genomic predictions for sustainable disease resistance in wheat
- Novel integrated strategies for worldwide mycotoxin reduction in the food and feed chains (MYCORED)
- Using naturally occurring endophytic fungi or bacteria associated with wheat as a biological control agent against the cereal cyst nematodes, Heterodera species
Contact
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
(CIMMYT)
Apdo. Postal 6-641
6600 Mexico
Mexico
Mexico
Phone: +52 55 5804 2004
Fax: +52 55 5804 7558
Email: cimmyt(@)cgiar.org