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Reproductive patterns in annual legume species on an aridity gradient
Reproductive patterns are analysed in annual legumes of west Asia, and their relationships to increasing aridity determined by multivariate analysis. Dormancy, seed size, dispersal and fecundity are shown to be partially ...
Drought as a challenge for the plant breeder
Since agriculture began, drought has been on of the major plagues affecting crop production causing famine and death. Despite many decades of research, drought continues to be a major challenge to agricultural scientists. ...
Literature Update on Wheat, Barley, and Triticale Vol. 2 No. 1
This is a weekly CD_ROM service giving abstracts of articles from the current issues of the world's most influential scientific journals. ISI has authorised us to extract the abstracts that deal with wheat barley and ...
Barley Yellow Striate Mosaic Rhabdovirus Naturally Infects Cereal Crops in the Anatolian Plateau of Turkey
Field surveys of cereal crops in the Anatolian Plateau of Turkey revealed that bread wheat, durum wheat, barley, triticale and oats are naturally infected with barley yellow striate mosaic rhabdovirus. Identification was ...
Wheat Barley and Triticale Newsletter - RACHIS - No. 15(1&2)
The RACHIS information service has been initiated by ICARDA to meet the information needs of barley, wheat and triticale research workers in the Near East and North Africa region. RACHIS seeks to report research results ...
The barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) of Sardinia, Italy
Since ancient times, barley has been an important food resource for the people of Sardinia. The oldest traces of its cultivation are from the mid-Neolithic (fourth millennium B.C.). Archaeological, historical and anthropological ...
Genetic Resource Unit Annual Report 1996-1997
This report represents work carried out at the Genetic Resources Unit (GRU) of ICARDA in the seasons 1995-96 and 1996-97. During this two-year period, the GRU continued its normal activities of germplasm collection, ...
Registration of FLIP 87‐59C, a Drought‐Tolerant Chickpea Germplasm Line
Registration of FLIP 87‐59C, a Drought‐Tolerant Chickpea Germplasm Line
Reaction of wild species of the geneus Lens to drought
Susceptibility to drought stress is a key factor in dry land lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) production in the Mediterranean region of West Asia and North Africa. This study examined the response to drought stress of 121 ...
Factors influencing the development of bread wheat plant types to be grown in the 'transitional zone' in northern Syria
This study sought to identify factors that influence wheat development in the transitional wheat growing zone of northern Syria. Three development factors were studied, intrinsic earliness, and responses to vernalization ...