ICARDA-CIMMYT alliance for wheat improvement

11 December 2006 10:15
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Dr. S. Rajaram

ICARDA, Syria

Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram joined ICARDA in early 2005 as Director of the newly-formed Megaproject, "Integrated Gene Management", which includes wheat improvement. He worked as a wheat scientist at CIMMYT for 34 years and has special expertise and success with breeding for resistance to the rust diseases, including the use of durable forms of slow-rusting.

Some recent publications

Warburton ML, Crossa J, Franco J, et al.
Bringing wild relatives back into the family: recovering genetic diversity in CIMMYT improved wheat germplasm
EUPHYTICA 149 (3): 289-301 JUN 2006

Das MK, Rajaram S, Mundt CC, et al.
Number of genes controlling slow rusting resistance to leaf rust in five spring wheat cultivars
ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY 145 (1): 91-94 2004

Rajaram S, Pena RJ, Villareal RL, et al.
Utilization of wild and cultivated emmer and of diploid wheat relatives in breeding
ISRAEL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES 49: S93-S104 Suppl. S 2001

DeLacy IH, Rajaram S, Cooper M, et al.
The effect of the accumulation of disease resistance genes on the long-term association of a global sample of environments for testing spring bread wheat
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS 101 (7): 1164-1172 NOV 2000

Smale M, Singh RP, Sayre K, et al.
Estimating the economic impact of breeding nonspecific resistance to leaf rust in modern bread wheats
PLANT DISEASE 82 (9): 1055-1061 SEP 1998

Sayre KD, Singh RP, Huerta-Espino J, et al.
Genetic progress in reducing losses to leaf rust in CIMMYT-derived Mexican spring wheat cultivars
CROP SCIENCE 38 (3): 654-659 MAY-JUN 1998