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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

research and training center, Mexico

Also known as: CIMMYT

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Seeds on Ice

In Seeds on Ice: Seeds on Ice transcript
…and maize international center [International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center] in Mexico. They have deposited, I think, 180,000 seed samples or something like that. And the smallest gene banks have sent two samples each. So it’s actually impossible to say which of these seeds, which of these genotypes, have…
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