Rust Resistant Durum Wheat
Channel: CIMMYT
Date: 05/08/2010

"Between preliminary yield trials and elite yield trials we've got about 2500 lines and they are all resistant to leaf rust," says Karim Ammar, a wheat breeder, breeding for rust resistance that also increases quality. 

It might have been easy to look this as a single problem—producing disease-resistant plants or plants that can produce more grain—but the team realized the challenge was much more complicated. Farmers in developing countries need more than grain if their livelihoods are to improve. They need grain that is high in quality and for which there is a market.

To learn more visit this page: http://www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/63-2007/200-farmers-get-their-yield-back-and-more

CREDITS:
Filmed, edited and produced by David Mowbray