Food Legume Crops Improvement 1985

Abstract

The research in the Program was continued to be conducted around a set of projects for each of the crops through a multidisciplinary team of scientists from within and outside the Food Legume Improvement Program. However, for the convenience of the readers, our results are presented in this report, more or less, on disciplinary basis. The strategy used to develop improved genetic stocks and cultivars and production technology using the experimental sites available to the Program and linkages with the national programs has already been reported earlier (ICARDA Annual Report 1984, page 150). Research work at IC4RDA1s principal research station at Aleppo and at subsites in Syria and Lebanon was complemented by that conducted in the Nile Valley of Egypt and Sudan and in the ICARDA/INRAT cooperative project on food legumes in Tunisia. Stronger linkages were developed with Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Turkey to achieve this complementarity.