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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

Also Known As CIMMYT (from the Spanish name)

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The Mexican research center, formalized in 1966, that grew out of the Rockefeller-Mexico program where Norman Borlaug bred his dwarf wheats. CIMMYT wheat and maize lines are in the pedigrees of a large share of both crops planted worldwide, and its shuttle-breeding method, moving generations between two Mexican stations a season apart, became standard practice.

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1966 1
Headquarters
Texcoco, Mexico 1
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CIMMYT grew from the Rockefeller-Mexico program where Borlaug bred his wheats

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