The Temperate Rice Research Consortium (TRRC) recognized the need for a «consortium
approach» to solve issues on temperate rice
improvement including both biotic and abiotic stresses,
yield potential, grain quality and nutrition, and water and nutrient management.
As part of varied
approaches at the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat
yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate changes.