A guide to the CIMMYT crop management and physiology subprogram

Download or read book A guide to the CIMMYT crop management and physiology subprogram written by Acevedo, E. and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic plan; External program review (EPR); Five-year plan; Currentactivities; Future issues; Acknowledgments; History of wheat crop management and physiology research (CMP) at CIMMYT/Mexico; Background; Evolution of CMP research objectives; Achievements; Research highlights; Support to trial and nursery management; Investigations of the agronomy of new materials; Development of screening techniques for abiotic stresses; Interface with agronomy and pathology; On-farm trials; Nitrogen trials; Organic and inorganic fertilization of wheat; Drought responses; Physiology of yield potential; Heat stress responses; Present focus of CMP strategic research at CIMMYT; Component agronomy; Sustainability of major wheat cropping systems; Pakistan: a foundation for strategic research; Rice-wheat system: the CIMMYT CMP wheat program in South Asia; Soybean-wheat system: Southern cone; Sustaining wheat cropping systems of tropical highlands: a case study of wheat-maize in MexicoSupport to breeding; Physiology and agronomy of wheat grown in environments with supra-optimal temperatures (ME5); Morpho-physiological traits of adaptation in wheat; Agronomic support for management of CIMMYT wheat program trials and nurseries at experiment stations in Mexico, Adaptive crop management research; East Africa cereals program-wheat; Bangladesh wheat program; Crop management research (CMR) training; Types of courses.