Towards demand-led gender-responsive breeding in wheat: Insights from the BGRI Technical Workshop
At the 2018 BGRI Workshop focus was placed on gender-responsive breeding, Read more from GREAT
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Bernice Waweru · 11 Jul 2018
Inauguration of the Regional Cereal Rust Research Center in Turkey
In a trip to Turkey on May 29-30, 2018, Ronnie Coffman, vice-chair of the BGRI, and Maricelis Acevedo, associate director of science for the Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat (DGGW) project, participated in the inauguration of the Regional Cereal Rust Research Center (RCRRC) in Izmir at the ...
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Linda McCandless · 10 Jul 2018
BGRI 2018 Recap, Part 2: Harnessing new technologies and tools for genetic gain in wheat
In another first for the BGRI Technical Workshop, the sessions moved beyond rust to think in a broader sense about the BGRI’s mandate to deliver genetic gains in wheat, and how we need to consider physiology and abiotic stresses in order to do this.
Several presenters highlighted the ...
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Samantha Hautea and Emma Quilligan · 25 May 2018
BGRI 2018 Recap, Part 1: Innovation and international collaboration is key to fighting wheat disease
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) has achieved much in the last decade through its mission to reduce the world’s vulnerability to stem, yellow, and leaf rusts of wheat. It has brought people together in meetings like this, facilitated sustainable international partnerships to contain the ...
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Samantha Hautea and Emma Quilligan · 23 May 2018
2018 Women in Triticum Award Winners
The BGRI is proud to again honor an outstanding group of women scientists with the 2018 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Award for early career and for mentoring. The winners received their award at the 2018 BGRI Technical Workshop in Marrakech, Morocco. These well deserving scientists ...
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Tessa Schneider · 25 Apr 2018
Francisco Barro, developer of gluten-free wheat, to deliver keynote address at BGRI Technical Workshop
A few years ago, the idea of gluten-free wheat was more theoretical than real. But last year, Francisco Barro, a plant scientist at the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture in Spain, made headlines with a gene editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9 that significantly reduced the amount of ...
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Samantha Hautea · 29 Mar 2018
The Journey Toward Gender Responsive Wheat Breeding in Kenya
The GREAT Gender-responsive Cereal Grains Breeding Course in Uganda surpassed my expectations. Week One was held in August 2018 and Week Two in January 2018. The experience transformed my thoughts about research and the driving force behind my efforts as a wheat breeder.
My institute, the ...
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Bernice Ngina Waweru · 23 Mar 2018
GRRC annual report on wheat yellow rust 2017 released
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Jens Grønbech Hansen · 21 Feb 2018
BGRI Scientist Profile: Shitaye Homma Megerssa
In 2018, the BGRI will be publishing a series of Q&A’s with scientists in the DGGW project. In honor of the UN Women in Science Day on February 11, this month we profile Shitaye Homma Megerssa, a Ph.D. Candidate from Ethiopia who is working in Mark Sorrells' laboratory at Cornell University ...
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Tessa Schneider · 9 Feb 2018
Breakthrough in the battle against Ug99
A significant breakthrough in combatting wheat stem rust disease caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici was recently achieved through the combined work of an international collaborative team, showing the power of cooperative research approaches.
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Melania Figueroa and Peter Dodds · 25 Jan 2018
