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Molecular diversity and mapping towards enhanced valorization of lentil genetic resources and marker-assisted selection for efficient cultivar development
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is an important crop for sustainable farming thanks to its ability to fix the atmospheric nitrogen enhancing soil fertility and allowing substantial reduction in fertilizer use. Recently, DNA ...
Chickpea yield losses due to Leaf miner (Liriomyza cicerina)
Chickpea leaf miner (Liriomyza cicerina R) is one of the main insect pests damaging chickpea (Cicer
arietinum L.) in the Mediterranean region. The surveys carried out in 2014 and 2015 in the regions of
Abda- Doukala, ...
Identification of genetic sources of improved responses to nitrogen fixing rhizobacteria and other plant growth promoting microbes
This is report of Nitrogen fixation
Identification of new sources of resistance to Striga gesnerioides in cowpea Vigna unguiculata accessions
The parasitic weed, Striga gesnerioides, is a major threat to cowpea productivity throughout the savannas of West and Central Africa. The
identification of sources of S. gesnerioides resistance and their incorporation in ...
Price quality relationships in fodder trading in Niger with special regards to comparison of cowpea and groundnut haulms with concentrates, collected shrubs and grasses
Investigations of price-quality relationships in feed and fodder marketing
can yield crucial information about economic benefits from livestock
production, specific feed demand and supply, opportunities for engaging in
feed ...
Effect of inoculation of chickpea and lentil with stress tolerant rhizobia of Morocco
Chickpea and lentil are important pulse crops grown mainly in arid and semi-arid regions where numerous environmental factors including drought, salinity, extreme temperatures and soil pH may dramatically affect nodulation, ...
Guidelines and Procedures for Safe Food and Forage Crops Germplasm Moverment
Within the framework of the CGIAR, ICARDA has the
world mandate for the improvement of barley, lentil and faba
bean. It also has a regional mandate for the improvement of
wheat (bread and durum), Kabuli chickpea and pasture ...
Screening wild vigna species and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) landraces for sources of resistance to striga gesnerioides
This chapter presents the results of a study conducted on the experimental field of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Minjibir, Kano State, Nigeria, during the planting seasons of 2012 and 2013 ...
Comparison of cowpea and groundnut haulm trading in urban and rural fodder markets in Niger
Jarial, S., Blümmel, M., Soumana, I., Ravi, D., Issa, S., Whitbread, A. and Tabo, R. 2016. Comparison of cowpea and groundnut haulm trading in urban and rural fodder markets in Niger. Presented at the Pan African Grain ...
Identification of faba bean lines tolerant to high dosage of Glyphosate
Orobanche'crenata' Forsk is a parasitic weed that invades faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in the North Africa, East Africa and the Middle East. Several control methods including chemital, mechanical, cultural and even induction ...