Screening of wild varieties and landraces of forages from ICARDA genebank at Terbol station
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Matthias Benke. (31/1/2020). Screening of wild varieties and landraces of forages from ICARDA genebank at Terbol station.
Abstract
ICARDA exploited the 35,000 accessions of forage, pastures and range genetic resources in its
genebank to enrich the forage agrobiodiversity in the MENA region. Under the project, a total of
1355 forage, pastures and range plant species have been subjected to field evaluation under rainfed
conditions for drought resistance and high biomass yield. Suitability to cutting, grazing and
combination of both have also been evaluated using the parameters of biomass yield, sward density
and sward height under intensive and extensive dryland systems.
