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54 relations: Aflatoxin, Aureliano Brandolini, B. R. Murty, Baldev Singh Dhillon, Bent Skovmand, Bharat Ratna, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bolivia maize varieties, Borlaug Global Rust Initiative, Buberuka Highlands, Cecil Salmon, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, CGIAR, Chapingo, Doris Calloway, Ecuador maize varieties, Enrique Carral Icaza, Evangelina Villegas, FHCRAA, Friendship Award (China), G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Genetically modified food in Hawaii, Green Revolution, Henan Agricultural University, Hinduism in Mexico, History of plant breeding, History of science and technology in Mexico, Jock R. Anderson, Khem Singh Gill, List of acronyms: C, List of Christian Nobel laureates, List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, List of presidential trips made by Christian Wulff, List of University of Sydney people, M. V. Rao, Maize, Norman Borlaug, Plant breeding in Nepal, Plant genetic resources, Plantix (mobile app), Quality Protein Maize, Rajeev Kumar Varshney, Robert M. Goodman, Rockefeller Foundation, Sanjaya Rajaram, Simone Strey, Surinder Vasal, Triticale, UNESCO Science Prize, Virender Lal Chopra, ..., Wheat diseases, Wheat Research Centre, William Dar, Zoe Țapu. Expand index (4 more) »
Aflatoxin
Aflatoxins are poisonous carcinogens that are produced by certain molds (Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus) which grow in soil, decaying vegetation, hay, and grains.
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Aureliano Brandolini
Aureliano Brandolini (August 8, 1927 – September 5, 2008) was an Italian agronomist and development cooperation scholar.
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B. R. Murty
Bhyravabhotla Radhakrishna Murty (1928–2003) was an Indian botanist, known for his contributions the fields of Conservation genetics and Radiation genetics.
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Baldev Singh Dhillon
Baldev Singh Dhillon is an internationally renowned agricultural scientist and currently the Vice Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University in India. Earlier, he worked as Assistant Director General at ICAR, Director of NBPGR (ICAR), and as Director of Research at Punjab Agricultural University and Guru Nanak Dev University. He worked at University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany from 1976–78, 1988–90 and 2007–11, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico from 1993–94, and at the University of Birmingham, UK in 1989 in Maize Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology. Dr. Dhillon has been working as Vice Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University since July 2011. Under his dynamic leadership, PAU has earned a number of accolades.
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Bent Skovmand
Sir Bent Skovmand (January 25, 1945— February 6, 2007) was a Danish plant scientist and conservationist.
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Bharat Ratna
The Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India) is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), also known as the Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Bolivia maize varieties
The varieties of Bolivian maize are the result of thousands of years of selective breeding for superior agronomic and cooking traits.
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Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI - originally named the Global Rust Initiative) was founded in response to recommendations of a committee of international experts who met to consider a response to the threat the global food supply posed by the Ug99 strain of wheat rust.
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Buberuka Highlands
Buberuka Highlands is one of the 12 major agroecological zones in northeast Rwanda and covers an area of, which is nearly one third area in the Ruhengeri Prefecture.
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Cecil Salmon
Samuel Cecil Salmon (1885–1975) was an agronomist who was attached to the American occupying forces in Japan after World War II.
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Central Soil Salinity Research Institute
The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (acronym CSSRI) is an autonomous institute of higher learning, established under the umbrella of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for advanced research in the field of soil sciences.
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CGIAR
CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food-secured future.
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Chapingo
Chapingo is a small town located on the outskirts of the city of Texcoco, State of Mexico in central Mexico.
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Doris Calloway
Doris Calloway, née Howes (February 14, 1923 – August 31, 2001) was an American nutritionist noted for her studies of human metabolism, role in public health, and food preservation and safety.
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Ecuador maize varieties
The varieties of Ecuadorian maize are the repository of a rich farming and cooking tradition.
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Enrique Carral Icaza
Enrique Carral Icaza (July 14, 1914 – 1976) was a Mexican architect.
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Evangelina Villegas
Evangelina Villegas (October 24, 1924 – April 24, 2017) was a Mexican cereal biochemist whose work with maize led to the development of quality protein maize (QPM).
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FHCRAA
The Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA) is a consortium of aid organizations working to restructure agriculture in the central Asian nation.
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Friendship Award (China)
The Friendship Award is the People's Republic of China's highest award for "foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social progress".
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G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology
G.
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Genetically modified food in Hawaii
Genetic engineering in Hawaii is a hotly contested political topic.
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Green Revolution
The Green Revolution, or Third Agricultural Revolution, refers to a set of research and the development of technology transfer initiatives occurring between the 1930s and the late 1960s (with prequels in the work of the agrarian geneticist Nazareno Strampelli in the 1920s and 1930s), that increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.
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Henan Agricultural University
Henan Agricultural University is a public university in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
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Hinduism in Mexico
There are about 800 Indian families in Mexico, constituting a total number of about 900 NRIs.
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History of plant breeding
Plant breeding started with sedentary agriculture, particularly the domestication of the first agricultural plants, a practice which is estimated to date back 9,000 to 11,000 years.
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History of science and technology in Mexico
Science and technology have a long history in Mexico.
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Jock R. Anderson
Jock Robert Anderson (born 23 January 1941) is an Australian agricultural economist, specialising in agricultural development economics, risk and decision theory, and international rural development policy.
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Khem Singh Gill
Khem Singh Gill (born 1930) is an Indian academic, geneticist, plant breeder and a former Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University.
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List of acronyms: C
(Main list of acronyms).
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List of Christian Nobel laureates
65% of Nobel prize winners have been Christians.
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List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates
The Norwegian Nobel Committee each year awards the Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian and Nobels fredspris) "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.
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List of presidential trips made by Christian Wulff
This is a list of presidential visits to foreign countries made by Christian Wulff as President of Germany.
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List of University of Sydney people
This is a list of University of Sydney people, including notable alumni and staff.
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M. V. Rao
Mangina Venkateswara Rao (21 June 1928 – 8 March 2016) was an Indian agricultural scientist, plant breeder, geneticist and the chairman of the Agri Biotech Foundation (formelry AP Netherlands Biotechnology Programme).
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
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Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist and humanitarian who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution.
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Plant breeding in Nepal
Plant breeding in Nepal is the art and science of improving the heredity of plants for benefit of humanity in Nepal.
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Plant genetic resources
Plant genetic resources are plant genetic materials of actual or potential value.
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Plantix (mobile app)
Plantix is a mobile crop advisory app for farmers, extension workers and gardeners.
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Quality Protein Maize
The grain of quality protein maize (QPM) varieties contains nearly twice as much lysine and tryptophan, amino acids that are essential for humans and monogastric animals.
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Rajeev Kumar Varshney
Rajeev Kumar Varshney is a geneticist or genomicist with more than 20 years of research experience in the area of international agriculture.
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Robert M. Goodman
Robert “Bob” M. Goodman (born December 30, 1945) is a prominent plant biologist and virologist, and has served as the executive dean of agriculture and natural resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey since June 2005.
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Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
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Sanjaya Rajaram
Dr.
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Simone Strey
Simone Strey is a German internet entrepreneur who is co-founder and CEO of the mobile crop advisory app Plantix.
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Surinder Vasal
Surinder Vasal is an Indian geneticist and plant breeder, known for his contributions in developing a maize variety with higher content of usabale protein.
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Triticale
Triticale (× Triticosecale), is a hybrid of wheat (Triticum) and rye (Secale) first bred in laboratories during the late 19th century in Scotland and Germany.
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UNESCO Science Prize
The UNESCO Science Prize is a biennial scientific prize awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to "a person or group of persons for an outstanding contribution they have made to the technological development of a developing member state or region through the application of scientific and technological research (particularly in the fields of education, engineering and industrial development)." The candidates for the Science Prize are proposed to the Director-General of UNESCO by the governments of member states or by non-governmental organizations.
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Virender Lal Chopra
Virender Lal Chopra (born 1936) is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist and a former director-general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), known to have contributed to the development of wheat production in India.
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Wheat diseases
The cereal grain wheat is subject to numerous wheat diseases, including bacterial, viral and fungal diseases, as well as parasitic infestations.
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Wheat Research Centre
Wheat Research Centre is an autonomous national research institute that researches the production and cultivation of wheat in Bangladesh and is located in Nashipur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
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William Dar
William Dollente Dar (born 1953) an international administrator, is former Director General of ICRISAT.
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Zoe Țapu
Zoe Țapu (born 29 April 1934, Ploiești — died 11 February 2013, Ploiești) was a Romanian agronomist who created an original variety of durum wheat, adapted to the climate in Central and Eastern Europe and other similar regions of the world.
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