Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Improved maize genetic resource lines from CIMMYT

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) released nine new maize lines, which are especially valuable for breeders seeking drought tolerance or tar spot complex disease resistance.  The new inbred lines are not intended to be used directly in commercial hybrids but rather by breeders as sources of novel alleles for traits of economic importance. These lines could also be of interest to maize researchers who are not breeders but are studying the underlying genetic mechanisms of abiotic and biotic traits.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectPlant breeding techniques and approaches
PublisherCIMMYT
Publication year2020
RegionsLatin America and the Caribbean
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://www.cimmyt.org/news/cimmyt-releases-its-first-ever-maize-genetic-resource-lines/
KeywordsPlant breeding; Agricultural biodiversity; Best practices approaches and techniques
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