The International Wheat Yield Partnership- a New Venture to Stimulate Progress in Increasing Wheat Yields.

The need to increase the rate of gain of wheat yields around the world is well known. A group of major research funders has recognized that bringing together some of the most innovative groups in the world to address the various bottlenecks for increasing maximum yield levels.is necessary to increase the probability that a series of breakthroughs emerges that can be captured into wheat breeding programs around the world. Thus The International Wheat Yield Partnership has been formed. This has both public and private sector contributors from many countries. It has a special link to CIMMYT where it is expected that significant innovations can be rapidly evaluated in elite germplasm relevant to the major wheat growing areas of the world. The research program will be built from selected proposals as well as from existing programs committed to increasing wheat yields. The emerging forward-looking research portfolio will be described, addressing genetic and physiological traits, as well as some of the other innovative features of this new Partnership