New cereal grain breeding course to focus on gender-responsiveness
KAMPALA, UGANDA: Sign up your wheat research team by June 9 to participate in the new Gender-responsive Cereal Grain Breeding course offered by GREAT, in Kampala, Uganda, August 7-16, 2017.
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Linda McCandless · 20 Apr 2017
Take-it-to-the-Farmer!
Join the BGRI's #WheatIsScience social media campaign, which we are launching this month in support of the March for Science and Earth Day on Saturday, April 22.
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Linda McCandless · 18 Apr 2017
Coffman receives the Yaqui Award from CIMMYT
CIUDAD OBREGÓN, MEXICO: Ronnie Coffman has received the Yaqui Award in honor of the major contributions he has made in enabling others to develop better wheat varieties.
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Linda McCandless · 18 Apr 2017
An Interview with Sarala Sharma: Wheat rust is a serious threat to Nepal food security
Wheat is one of the major food crops across the world, including Nepal. The fall in wheat production seriously affects the world’s food chain. In recent decades, wheat farmers, especially in the African region, have suffered from many different diseases, including wheat rust.
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Maina Dhital (English version) · 29 Mar 2017
2017 WIT Mentor Award Winner
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative presents Silvia Germán with the Jeanie Borlaug Laude Women in Triticum (WIT) Mentor Award. This honor, first awarded in 2011, recognizes mentors who have had a significant role advising and mentoring women working in triticum.
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Tessa Schneider · 22 Mar 2017
2017 WIT Early Career Award Winners
Maricelis Acevedo presented the 2017 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Award to five promising women in the field of wheat science today at CIMMYT Visitor's Week in Ciudad Obregon, Mexico.
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Tessa Schneider · 22 Mar 2017
Sixth SAARC Wheat Rust Monitoring and Disease Management Course Conducted in Nepal
KATHMANDU, NEPAL: Scientists from South Asia gathered in Kathmandu to participate in comprehensive training on wheat rust monitoring and disease management.
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Linda McCandless · 20 Mar 2017
Willem Boshoff to continue cereal rust research at University of the Free State, South Africa
In view of the retirement of Prof Zak Pretorius from UFS later this year, Dr Willem H.P. Boshoff assumed duties in the Department of Plant Sciences in January 2017.
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Samantha Hautea · 8 Mar 2017
Women in Triticum: Philomin Juliana
What is your current professional position, title, affiliation, responsibilities?
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Tessa Schneider · 27 Feb 2017
International experts train scientists to fight deadly wheat disease in South Asia
DINAJPUR, BANGLADESH: Wheat blast, a devastating fungal disease that appeared in South Asia for the first time in 2016, was the focus of a surveillance workshop in Bangladesh where international experts trained 40 top wheat pathologists, breeders, and agronomists from Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
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Samantha Hautea · 23 Feb 2017
