Do you think wheat Yields can be increased by 50% in the next 20 years?
While it seems impossible to imagine – this is the stated aim of the International Wheat Yield Partnership. The research initiative is focusing on 2 priority areas: targeting the use of new technologies to enable breakthroughs for cereal breeding and seeking breakthrough discoveries that lead to significantly greater grain size, set and grain filling duration following embryo formation, in diverse environments, without compromising grain protein concentration.
Over the first five years, the growing list of partners aims to invest up to US$100 million The IWYP is an independent research Initiative. IWYP represents a long-term global endeavour that utilizes a collaborative approach to bring together funding from public and private research organisations from a large number of countries.
Currently, this includes the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
of the United Kingdom (BBSRC), Grains Research and Development Corporation of Australia (GRDC), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Department of Biotechnology of India (DBT), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, in Spanish, Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique of France (INRA), Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) and Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food of Mexico (SAGARPA).
You can read more about it here: http://iwyp.org/
While it seems impossible to imagine – this is the stated aim of the International Wheat Yield Partnership. The research initiative is focusing on 2 priority areas: targeting the use of new technologies to enable breakthroughs for cereal breeding and seeking breakthrough discoveries that lead to significantly greater grain size, set and grain filling duration following embryo formation, in diverse environments, without compromising grain protein concentration.
Over the first five years, the growing list of partners aims to invest up to US$100 million The IWYP is an independent research Initiative. IWYP represents a long-term global endeavour that utilizes a collaborative approach to bring together funding from public and private research organisations from a large number of countries.
Currently, this includes the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
of the United Kingdom (BBSRC), Grains Research and Development Corporation of Australia (GRDC), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Department of Biotechnology of India (DBT), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, in Spanish, Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique of France (INRA), Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) and Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food of Mexico (SAGARPA).
You can read more about it here: http://iwyp.org/