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CGIAR Regional Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus Progress Report 2014 – 2016
The reporting period (July 2014 – June 2016) has been fruitful in identifying improved winter wheat varieties resistant to soil salinity, frost, and heat. Varieties like ‘Buniyodkor’, ‘Gozgon’, and ‘Yaksart’ in Uzbekistan, ...
Review Meeting Dryland Cereals Phase 1 and Extension Gender Phase
The DC Gender Strategy identified, in 2013, the gender gap - differences among men andwomen in a range of areas. (1) ownership and use rights over resources including land, water and livestock, (2) capacity to capture ...
Identification of two major quantitative trait locus for fresh seed dormancy using the diversity arrays technology and diversity arrays technology-seq based genetic map in Spanish-type peanuts
Seed quality for both germination in the next generation and for human
consumption is adversely affected due to preharvest sprouting in peanut.
It also makes seeds more vulnerable to infection by a number of pathogens.
Therefore, ...
Conservation agriculture for improving water productivity in Vertisols of semi-arid tropics
Large variability and uncertainty of rainfall are the
main limiting factors for crop growth in rainfed agriculture.
Agriculture water management interventions
are considered as suitable adoption strategy to enhance
crop ...
The genome sequences of Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, the diploid ancestors of cultivated peanut
Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an allotetraploid with closely related subgenomes of a total size of ~2.7 Gb. This makes the
assembly of chromosomal pseudomolecules very challenging. As a foundation to understanding ...
Host plant resistance to insect pests in pigeonpea: Potential and limitations
Host plant resistance to insects is one of the components of pest management in pigeonpea. Considerable progress has been made in developing techniques to screen for resistance to Helicoverpa armigera. However, some of ...
CAC Program Highlights No 6. November- December, 2016
News from CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) covering the countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, ...