Byrd C. Curtis, director of CIMMYT’s Global Wheat Program from 1982 to 1988. (Photo: CIMMYT)
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) sadly notes the passing of Byrd C. Curtis, former Director of the Global Wheat Program, on January 7. He was 95 years old and lived in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, with his wife Eloise Curtis.
From his studies at Oklahoma State University to retiring after a fruitful international career with Colorado State University, Cargill Inc. and CIMMYT, he never got weary of sharing his passion for breeding better, tastier and sturdier wheat to improve peoples’ livelihoods.
He was an innovator at heart and his legacy will live on through Colorado State University’s wheat breeding program and the many wheat varieties he developed. Not only did he start Colorado State University’s wheat breeding program in 1963, but he also ensured that the varieties that were bred by his team reflected the needs of humanity for decades to come, suc
a huge number of extra members that have joined the party in recent months and obviously the issues the climate change issues remind very much at the top of the agenda at the same time we have seen in these results that the governing parties the conservatives and the social democrats seem to be at the moment also consolo dating their positional slide gains on their part and many of these changes all of a city still within the kind of margin of error of such such surveys but i think what we see is a kind of stabilisation of the political landscape at the moment but stabilized with a far with a wide spread between left and right ok thanks so much for breaking down the numbers for us this morning hans braun for us there well we re going as much into the united kingdom now where boris johnson is digging in the british prime minister s insisting the u.k. leave the european union by october 31st he d rather quote be dead in
i m ackles sister party in bavaria the c.s.u. they were especially hard hit by the success of the far right turn in for germany what does that mean for the formation of any new government that in fact puts another break on developments because in fact amongst the bavarian party the knives are out for the leader of that party is does not look likely to survive as leader there will be a party congress in mid november and the leadership will be decided then that s also crucial for these coalition talks so i m told that this is the side as well not much movement is possible in coalition talks so we have a whole lot of factors that will mean that the formation of a new government in germany will really take a very long time ok a lot of undecided variables out there right now hans braun for us our political studio thanks very much. it s the u.s. now where hugh hefner the founder of playboy magazine has died at age ninety one
she tries to forge a new governing coalition in berlin. and to talk about the chancellor s options we re joined now by hans braun from our political desk machall doesn t give the impression of being all that concerned about her party s historic losses in the general election can she afford a business as usual approach. well in a sense you could say can she afford another approach at the moment of after all she s back on the campaign trail and she has to give some sort of form of confidence to her party friends in lower saxony who are trying to win back power in the state which they used to rule some years ago and which they had lost to the social democrats and where the social democrats have been willing in the past few years she has to instill some confidence in her party there specially after the worse than expected results in the general election recently and if in fact the conservatives the christian democrats do manage