Sentences with phrase «resistant bread wheat»

«As of 2012, the start of the most recent phase of ACIAR - funded work, Afghanistan partners have developed and released 12 high - yielding and disease resistant bread wheat varieties, as well as 3 varieties of durum wheat, 2 of barley and 3 of maize,» said Rajiv Sharma, a senior wheat scientist at CIMMYT and country liaison officer for CIMMYT in Afghanistan.