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Food uses of barley
Barley grain is used as feed, malt, and food. Our ancestors depended on barley as a staple food more than we
do now. Barley played an important role in the origin and development of the Neolithic culture.
Since its ...
Screening faba bean (Vicia faba L.) germplasm for resistance to persistently aphid transmitted viruses
Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is an important, high protein food and feed crop in many countries mainly in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA), East Africa and East Asia. The crop is affected by a number of virus ...
Stabilized Nitrogen Fertilizers to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Australian Agriculture
Loss of nitrogen (N) from applied fertilizer is a major cause of inefficiency in N fertilizer utilization. This loss of N can occur through many pathways including ammonia (NH3) volatilization, nitrate (NO3) leaching and ...
Decentralized-Participatory Plant Breeding: Adapting Crops to Environments and Clients
In recent years there has been an increasing interest towards participatory research in general, and
towards participatory plant breeding in particular. Following the early work of Rhoades and Booth
(1982), scientists ...
Mining the ICARDA germplasm collection for biotic and abiotic priority traits for Australia
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has a global mandate for barley improvement, targeting nearly 18 million ha of dry areas. Germplasm improvement in hulled and naked barley for ...
Occurrence and management of faba bean necrotic yellows virus in food legume crops
Faba bean necrotic yellows virus (FBNYV, genus Nanovirus, family Nanoviridae) causes an important disease of several food and fodder legumes. Its main symptoms are leaf yellowing, plant stunting, reddening, thickening of ...
Bean yellow mosaic virus studies in faba bean
Bean yellow mosaic (BYMV, genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae) is worldwide distributed and the most common cause of mosaic symptoms in faba bean (Vicialabae L.). BYMV was the most frequently found virus in quantitative ...
A Multi-Model Systems Approach for Identifying Low Emissions Development Pathways– Analyzing Synergies and Trade-offs in Semiarid Agriculture in India
Food security in the face of changing climate has pushed governments and development actors to focus efforts on improving adaptation, however, going forward besides adaptation, mitigation efforts to reduce GHG emissions ...