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Rehabilitation of degraded grasslands in north Syria: use of farmer participatory research to encourage the sowing of annual pasture legumes
A series of experiments on communally-owned grasslands in the barley-livestock zone of north Syria were conducted to test the hypothesis that introduction of Mediterranean annual legumes will increase productivity. The ...
Survey for chickpea and lentil virus diseases in Ethiopia
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) are among the major cool-season food legumes grown in Ethiopia. Fungal and viral diseases are important factors limiting production of these two crops in the ...
Does function follow form? Principal QTLs for Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance are coincident with QTLs for inflorescence traits and plant height in a doubled-haploid population of barley
Fusarium head blight (FHB), an important disease of barley in many areas of the world, causes losses in grain yield and quality. Deoxynivalenol (DON) mycotoxin residues, produced by the primary pathogen Fusarium graminearum, ...
Competition between Medicago truncatula and wheat for N-15 labeled soil nitrogen and influence of phosphorus
To determine competition for nitrogen uptake, a greenhouse experiment was conducted using annual Medicago truncatula cf. Jemalong (medic) and Triticum turgidum spp. durum cv. Karim (wheat) grown alone or in mixture, over ...
Morphological and agronomic characterisation of a collection of napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) and P-purpureum x P-glaucum
A collection of 53 accessions of Pennisetum purpureum and P. purpureum x P. glaucum maintained in the field genebank of the International Livestock Research Institute was described using 8 agronomic characters and 20 ...
Inheritance and linkage relationships of days to flower and morphological loci in lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus subsp. culinaris)
Lentils from south Asia differ markedly in days to flower and several other traits from lentils in other major lentil producing areas of the world such as west Asia. Single-gene inheritance and a polygenic system were ...
Inheritance and Linkage Analysis of Frost Injury in Lentil
Radiation-frost injury is an important abiotic constraint to lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) production in West Asia, but no information has been published on the inheritance of radiation-frost injury in lentil. The objectives ...
Organic matter turnover in a calcareous clay soil from Syria under a two-course cereal rotation
Total organic C and microbial biomass C were measured in soils from a two-course rotation experiment at the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria. Six rotations were sampled: wheat-vetch, ...
Allelic variation at (TAA)(n) microsatellite loci in a world collection of chickpea (Cicer arletinum L.) germplasm
A set of 12 randomly selected (TAA), microsatellite loci of the cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) were screened in a worldwide sample comprising 72 landraces, four improved cultivars and two wild species of the ...
Wheat genetic control of Hessian fly (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Morocco
Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor (Say), causes about 30% yield reduction on both durum wheat and bread wheat in Morocco. Major effort has been put on host plant resistance for control of this pest. Field and greenhouse ...