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Genetic Variation for Tolerance to Herbicide Imazethapyr in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)
Identification of lentil genotypes tolerant to post-emergence herbicides and incorporation of herbicide tolerance in to high yielding varieties can prove a boon for developing effective integrated weed management strategy ...
Strategies and Innovative Approaches for Food Legumes Seed Delivery in Ethiopia
Seed is the only vehicle in crop technology promotion, adoption and impact enhancement. Legumes play an important role in food and nutritional security of smallholder farmers and sustainability of farming systems in Ethiopia. ...
Molecular diversity and population structure of the Ethiopian lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) genotype assessment using SSR markers
Knowledge of genetic diversity in germplasm is essential for formulating effective germplasm collection, conservation, utilization strategies in and crop improvement programs. It also provides an opportunity to take ...
Effect of Sowing Date on the Yield of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)
A sowing date experiment was conducted over 6 years (1978–1983) to determine the optimum sowing date for lentil on vertisols in Debre Zeit area, Ethiopia. The results showed that sowing between the last week of June and ...
Integrating straw yield and quality into multi‐dimensional improvement of lentil (Lens culinaris)
BACKGROUND
Lentil straw is an important source of fodder for livestock in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. However, improvement programmes of lentil do not pay attention to straw traits, neither are straw traits ...
Temperature sensitivity of food legumes: a physiological insight
Of the various environmental stresses that a
plant can experience, temperature has the widest and most
far-reaching effects on legumes. Temperature extremes,
both high (heat stress) and low (cold stress), are injurious ...
The incidence and distribution of seed-transmitted viruses in pea and lentil seed lots in Ethiopia
The incidence of seed-transmitted viruses was determined in 270 lentil and 219 pea seed samples collected in 1998 and 1999 from farmers' seed lots in Ethiopia. Seedlings obtained from 400 seeds from each sample were ...
Improving the Nutritive Value of Cereal and Pulse Straws Using Dung Ash and Wood Ash Treatments
The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of treatment of straws with cow dung ash treatment
and wood ash on their nutritive value. Accordingly, straws of barley, wheat, chickpea, faba bean and
lentil were treated ...