Great visit by the @CAIGE Australia team to @CIMMYT Obregón 🇲🇽—collaborating with breeders and selecting promising wheat lines to benefit Australian farmers. 🌾🇦🇺 #WheatBreeding #GlobalAg #CIMMYT @PbiCobbitty
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Velu Govindan
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Velu Govindan
@WheatVelu
Wheat breeder: developing competitive nutrient-rich wheat varieties for smallholder farmers in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Views and opinions are my own.
Mexico Katılım Şubat 2016
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@WheatVelu Richard is coming after Easter, I have some medical issues so I’ll stay home.
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Getting ready for visitors week @CIMMYT Obregon - though the wheat season is accelerated for high temperatures this year expecting good harvest
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Great to be in Australia and interact with researchers @westernsydneyu & PBI Sydney and learn about new technologies in hybrid wheat research
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Hungry and on the go?
Don't overlook that loaf of bread!
Bread is packed with complex carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals and fibre.
These nutrients play a key role in helping you feel fuelled and energized throughout your day. 🏃
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Congrats @veronicaguwela! Great work!
Surbhi Grewal@SurbhiG6
Special mention for The Carlotta Award #FSTP5 goes to @veronicaguwela from @cimmyt on her PhD work on introgressing wild relative segments into Malawian wheat to increase grain nutrient content @Notts_WRC funded by @UoNBiosciences Future Food Beacon
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Great example of Punjab Agrl University BISA & @CIMMYT partnership led #wheat varieties among the top performers at the national level in India @PUNJABAGRICULT2 @BISA__India
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The 'Green Revolution' transformed global agriculture. Now it's adapting to climate change. @CIMMYT grist.org/food-and-agric…
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Good looking wheat fields with good epidemic of yellow rust @CIMMYT Toluca allows selecting disease resistant wheat lines & the controlled screenhouse facility allows making of new crosses despite heavy rains @gatesfoundation
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New publications showcasing use of genomic selection in @CIMMYT wheat breeding frontiersin.org/journals/plant…
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new book on zinc crops for better human health @CIMMYT harvestplus.org/global-experts…
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Wheat fields @CIMMYT Toluca this season with good emergence & making use of cold and wet conditions over the past 2 weeks. Great progress with the rapid breeding methods with the use of controlled growth facilities for crossing & advancements
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Hoy nos ha visitado el profesor Carlos Guzmán para supervisar sus proyectos en colaboración con @AgrovegetalSA y nos hemos fotografiado junto al trigo harinero #Rota en #CampoDeTejada
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Great visualization. Good work!
Kai Sonder@kai_sonder
Every year @CIMMYT's #wheat breeders send out the new nurseries with high yield potential and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses for testing to many collaborators in the world both in the public and private sector. Rendered in R with #rayrender by @tylermorganwall .
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Great progress towards wheat harvest @CIMMYT CENEB, Obregon. Of the 100K headrows evaluated for agronomic and disease resistance, > 28K headrows harvested & retained about 15K lines selected for plump healthy grain for summer season evaluation & seed multiplication
Toluca/Batan
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How crop breeding can be a scalable solution to global malnutrition @CIMMYT devex.com/news/sponsored… #Devex via @Devex
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High Zinc Biofortified Wheat in Pakistan featured in @CGIAR Flagship Report. Many thanks to all partners who contributed to this achievement & this milestone reflects our collective efforts and commitment to delivering healthier wheat @CIMMYT #CGIARScienceWeek
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