Semi-dwarf wheat: a shared breeding achievement

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Combined dwarfing traits, disease resistance, breeding and field testing to develop productive wheat varieties and extend them across growing regions.

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1964 identifies documented field-testing and exchange in this multiyear development. Japanese germplasm, US breeding, Mexican development and South Asian testing have distinct roles; a global lives-saved estimate is not assigned.

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CIMMYT institutional history: how a dwarfing gene travelled through wheat breeding

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Norman Borlaug; Gonjoro Inazuka; Orville Vogel; M. S. Swaminathan

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