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CAC News No 25. July-September 2005
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, ...
CAC News No 53-54. July-December 2012
In this issue:
a) Technology for finding heat-tolerant wheat in Central Asia
b) Yellow rust-resistant wheat to boost regional food security
c) Community-based reforestation project starts in Uzbekistan
d) Climate change ...
CAC News No19. January-March 2004
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, ...
Virulence of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis in the countries of the Silk Road
Tan spot, caused by the fungal pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, is an important foliar disease of wheat. Eight races of the fungus are presently known based on their virulence on a wheat differential set. In 2001, ...
CAC News No 12. April-June 2002
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, ...
CAC News No 61-62. July-December 2014
In this issue:
a) New center for grain seed production opens in Uzbekistan
b) Researchers identify new wheat in Turkmenistan
c) Mainstreaming integrated pest management in Central Asia
d) Scientists urge more attention ...
Improving food security and coping with biotic and abiotic constraints using improved crop germplasm in Central Asia and the Caucasus
This presentation highlights:
1) Constraints to winter crop production under climate change.
2) Germplasm introduction.
3) Progress on yellow rust resistant wheat varieties.
4) Progress on salinity tolerant wheat.
5) ...
Improving wheat stripe rust resistance in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Wheat is the most important cereal in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. ...
CAC Regional Program Progress Report 2014-2016 Highlights of major achievements in the region
a) Implemented through two major action sites representing Agro-pastoral and irrigated systems
b) More than 15 different activities were accomplished
c) Several national institutions and CGIAR and non-CGIAR centers contributed ...
Training and Surveillance Support for Wheat Rust Diseases in Central Asia and Near East: Field-based assessment of wheat rust pathogenic variability (Trap Nurseries)
Under the FAO-ICARDA initiative on Training and Surveillance Support for Wheat Rust Diseases, 132 sets of International Rust Trap Nurseries of yellow, stem, and leaf ruts was distributed to the 10 supported countries. The ...