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Food Legume Nurseries: International Nursery Report 1982/83
The main objective of the program is to provide a mechanism for the multi-location testing of the genetic material of chickpea, faba beans, and lentils originating from national and International programs.
The testing aims ...
Broad bean stain virus: Identification, detectability with ELISA in faba bean leaves and seeds, occurrence in West Asia and North Africa, and possible wild hosts
During a survey of faba bean viruses in West Asia and North Africa a virus was identified as broad bean stain virus (BBSV) based on host reactions, electron microscopy, physical properties and serology. An antiserum to a ...
Developing a guideline to enhance NARS’ R4D impact and strengthen the institutional linkages between NARS actors in Egypt
The agriculture sector plays a critical role in the economy of developing countries, where the
agricultural sector contributes about 15% of the GDP and employs about 25% of total
employment. Agriculture employs almost ...
Evolution of Crop Water Productivity in the Nile Delta over Three Decades (1985-2015)
Estimating crop water productivity (CWP) for spatially variable climatic conditions in Egypt is important for the redistribution of crop planting to optimize production per unit of water consumed. The current paper aims ...
Desert Development: Challenges Beyond the Year 2000. Abstracts
Desert Development: Challenges Beyond the Year 2000. Abstracts of the Sixth International Conference on the Development of Dry Lands which was held from 22-27 August 1999 Cairo, Egypt.
Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?
The prehistory of the Indian Ocean world can be likened to a complex historical jigsaw puzzle, and has attracted deep interest from various dis- ciplines (Chaudhuri 1985; Pearson 2011). The objective has been to find and ...
Food Legume Nurseries: International Nursery Report 1986/87
The main objective of the program is to provide a mechanism for the multi-location testing of the genetic material of chickpea, faba beans, and lentils originating from national and International programs.
The testing aims ...
Germplasm Program Legumes Annual Report 1995
This report summarizes the key accomplishments and efforts of the Germplasm Program Legumes at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in 1995.
Plant Breeding with Farmers: A technical manual
This manual on Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is based primarily on the direct experience derived from several years of implementing PPB programmes in a number of countries and on a number of crops, and secondly, from ...
Wheat leaf and stem rusts in the Nile Valley and Red Sea region: Incidence, spore movement, pathotypes and effective resistance genes.
Research on wheat rusts started in the 1988/89 growing season in Nile Valley and Red Sea Regional Program (NVRSRP), with available resources from the countries involved. It was further strengthened when the Netherlands ...