Stephen Mugo of CIMMYT explains the MLN screening facility in Naivasha to partners. Photo: Joshua Masinde/CIMMYT.
The maize lethal necrosis (MLN) artificial inoculation screening site in Naivasha, Kenya will begin the second interval of its phenotyping (screening/ indexing) cycle of 2019 at the beginning of April 2019. Interested organizations from both the private and public sectors are invited to send maize germplasm for screening.
Representatives from CIMMYT and UAS-Bangalore signed the collaboration agreement on February 18, 2019.
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore (UAS-Bangalore) have signed a collaboration agreement for establishing a maize doubled haploid (DH) facility at the Agricultural Research Station in Kunigal (ARS-Kunigal), Tumkur district, Karnataka state, India.
Maize ears from CIMMYT’s collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of farmer landraces — traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding. (Photo: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT)
With so much germplasm to categorize, what’s the best way to label them? Seeds of Discovery is working on the answer.
Imagine walking through a grocery store, doing your weekly shopping. Everything seems normal, but as you pick up a can, there’s no label. There’s nothing to tell you what the product is, and now you can’t reliably choose anything to eat this week.
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the MAIZE CRP
Photo Contest. The CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) launched the photo
contest with the theme of ‘Harvest Diversity’
to highlight the diversity of maize, its harvest and use around the world.
We received a wonderful selection of photographs that truly
showcased the diversity of maize.
Thank you to all those who submitted photos, and be sure to keep a look out for future photo contests.
We look forward to featuring the winning photos on our new Instagram feed and other MAIZE social media channels.
