Annual Technical Report 2024. CropSustaiN: A new paradigm to reduce the nitrogen footprint from agriculture

CIMMYT and its CropSustaiN partners greatly appreciate Novo Nordisk Foundation’s mission funding and high risk/high reward approach, as well as the commitment by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to co-fund (final decision outstanding by January 2025). During YR1 to end June 2025, spring wheat research station BNI elite lines field trials (‘yield+’) in Mexico (3 locations) representative of several major wheat-growing environments, India (3 locations), representative of major Indo-Ganges Plain wheat-growing agro-ecologies, Pakistan and Nepal (trials started; see 1.9.2), Australia (intergrain in-kind partner). Winter wheat: CIMMYT and research partners started on crossing BNI trait into elite winter wheat for European (CH, D, DK, F, UK). For N losses assessment research, research stations in Mexico, with global scope in terms of experimental design and modelling.