The CIMMYT wheat breeding strategies and its relevance to Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeAccelerated Breeding
cg.contributor.initiativePlant Health
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierBekele Abeyo: 0000-0002-8548-5128en
cg.creator.identifierBadeo A.; A.Badebo, Ayele Badebo, Ayele Badebo Huluka, Huluka AB: 0000-0001-6574-2724en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.isbn9789994466153en
cg.placeAddis Ababa, Ethiopiaen
cg.subject.actionAreaGenetic Innovation
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
dc.contributor.authorAbeyo, Bekele G.en
dc.contributor.authorBadebo, Ayeleen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T10:57:14Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-16T10:57:14Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/127177
dc.titleThe CIMMYT wheat breeding strategies and its relevance to Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractWheat is the most important food security crop globally. Recent world wheat production stand at 766 million tons on 216 million hectares though wheat production is challenged by various biotic, abiotic, and other factors. As a global leader in wheat research, CIMMYT’s primary goal is to develop broadly adapted germplasm with high and stable yield, durable disease resistance, stress tolerance and acceptable end-use quality strategically addressing the different mega-environments such as irrigated regions, high-rainfall areas, acid soils, semiarid zones, tropical areas, and winter wheat zones. CIMMYT’s Global wheat program is one of the most important public sources of high yielding, nutritious, disease resistant and climate-resilient wheat varieties for Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The program works with the International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), the CGIAR Research Program on Wheat, and NARS. The CIMMYT wheat breeding program is supported by multidisciplinary team of experts with breeders strategically and internationally located at key regional offices to facilitate germplasm and information exchange as well as technically support NARS. The primary focus of the breeding program is on core (must have) traits with some emphasis on additional traits for specific environments. The center is crossing, selecting, developing, and distributing stable, and high yielding advanced lines which includes some Zn and Fe enriched germplasm, with durable pest resistance, stress tolerance and superior quality using the different strategies, and methods, highlighted. In addition, CIMMYT collaboration with Ethiopian NARS in some areas will also be briefed.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAbeyo, B. and Badebo, A. 2022. The CIMMYT wheat breeding strategies and its relevance to Ethio-pia. IN: Revitalizing the Ethiopian Wheat Sector: Progresses and Challenges of Wheat Research and Seed Production (pp. 1–35). Addis Ababa: EIAR.en
dcterms.extentp. 1-35en
dcterms.issued2022en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherEthiopian Institute of Agricultural Researchen
dcterms.subjectwheaten
dcterms.subjectbreedingen
dcterms.subjectresearch programmesen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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