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Participatory on-farm demonstrations on food legumes in Afghanistan: Role in enhancing food and nutrition security
Objective of this study was to assess the performance of introduced improved varieties of chickpea and mungbean with associated agronomic practices in comparison with local varieties through farmers’ participatory evaluation ...
Small ruminants supplemental feeding regimes in arid agro-pastoral systems in Pakistan
Small ruminant production on arid agro-pastoral based production system requires greater attention in managing feed resources for optimal production. The global warming-climate change, leading to low precipitations further ...
A Multi-Model Systems Approach for Identifying Low Emissions Development Pathways– Analyzing Synergies and Trade-offs in Semiarid Agriculture in India
Food security in the face of changing climate has pushed governments and development actors to focus efforts on improving adaptation, however, going forward besides adaptation, mitigation efforts to reduce GHG emissions ...
Soil sorption of cesium on calcareous soils of Iran
The adsorption behaviour of Cs on two selected calcareous soils (clay and silty clay loam) with contrasting
physical and chemical characteristics was studied by means of a batch method. Cs sorption characteristic was ...
Impact of salinity on physiological and biochemical traits in pearl millet
Salinity is one of the most severe environmental factors limiting the productivity of agricultural crops in arid and semi-arid reg ions. Accumulation of excess salts in the rhizospheric environment results in disturbed ...
The Lentil Genome – from the sequencer to the field
Lentil (Lens culinaris ssp. culinaris; genome size 4.3 Gb) plays a significant role in supporting
sustainable agriculture worldwide. Its nutrition value has also been recognized as part of the solution to
combat global ...
Genome-wide association study of stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f.sp. hordei) resistance in a world collection of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
Stripe rust (Puccicina striiformis f.sp. hordei) (PSH) is one of the major diseases that causes significant yield losses of barley (Hordeium vulgare L.) worldwide. Frequent breakdown of resistance genes and emergence of ...