The assessment of site-specific soil erosion and the detection of its causes are preconditions for the implementation of adapted land use and land management practices. “Soil erosion damage mapping”, a well-tried erosion assessment method, was...
L'accord de collaboration entre l'ICARDA (Ie Centre International de Recherche Agricole dans les Zones Seches) et la Tunisie a ete signe en 1979 et ratifie par l' Assemblee Nationale en 1980.
L'ICARDA a son siege a Alep en Syrie et dispose de...
The Netherlands is one of the few developed countries that have been consistent in supporting development cooperation at levels agreed by the UN and OECD. Every year the country allocates
0.8% of its GNP to poverty reduction programs around the world...
Molecular techniques such as restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting, and DNA sequencing and database comparison, were employed to identify fungi isolated from field...
The limited population sizes used in many quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection experiments can lead to underestimation of QTL number, overestimation of QTL effects, and failure to quantify QTL interactions. We used the barley/barley stripe rust...
Agriculture contributes about 20% of Morocco's gross domestic product (GDP), but this proportion varies widely depending on rainfall. The country has about 8.5 million hectares of good agricultural land, of which nearly 90% is rainfed. However...
The salt tolerant variety Cham-1, created by ICARDA, showed a higher grain yield than the less salt tolerant landrace Haurani, but the main parameters for the pasta quality declined considerably. Salinity had a slight positive effect on the grain...
