Sentences with phrase «wheat variety released»

«Zinc - Shakthi, an early - maturing wheat variety released in India in 2014 whose grain features 40 percent more zinc than conventional varieties, is already grown by more than 50,000 smallholder farmers in the Northeastern Gangetic Plains of India.»

In 2012, TAM wheat varieties were planted on 41 percent of Texas wheat acres, 20 percent in Kansas, 14 percent in Nebraska, and 11 percent in Colorado, he said, adding the most popular wheat varieties released under this team currently are TAM 111, TAM 112, TAM 114 and TAM 204.

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After five years of growing and research, Scotland The Bread has released three wholemeal flours, each organically grown and milled in Scotland from a 19th century Scottish wheat variety.

Such enhanced wheat could be available in 2007; Dubcovsky and others plan to release wheat varieties created using conventional breeding techniques to incorporate the gene within a year.

«In the last four years, the national research programs of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan have released six zinc - biofortified wheat varieties derived from CIMMYT research,» said Hans Braun, director of the center's global wheat program.

«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.

HarvestPlus supports the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) to breed, test, and release varieties of vitamin A maize developed through our partnership with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).

In a news release, scientists at the meeting, held at a branch of the nonprofit International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, estimated that 90 percent of the wheat varieties planted by farmers around the world lack resistance to the rust variant, called Ug99 after its discovery in Uganda in Wheat Improvement Center, estimated that 90 percent of the wheat varieties planted by farmers around the world lack resistance to the rust variant, called Ug99 after its discovery in Uganda in wheat varieties planted by farmers around the world lack resistance to the rust variant, called Ug99 after its discovery in Uganda in 1999.