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Links between ICARDA and Spain are long established. A glance at any map of the Mediterranean will help explain why both have benefited from this collaboration. Spain is an active member of the European Union but it is also separated...

A survey to identify virus diseases affecting faba bean (Vicia faba) in Iraq was conducted during April 2000. Around 4400 samples were collected from 36 faba bean fields distributed in five governorates (ten in Baghdad, nine in Al‐Anbar, three...

A survey for Barley yellow dwarf (BYDV) and Cereal yellow dwarf viruses (CYDV) was carried out during April 2001 covering seven major cereal-growing regions (Beja, Bizerte, Cap-Bon, Jendouba, Le Kef, Siliana and Zaghouan) of Tunisia. A total of...

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) germplasm lines, ILL 422, ILL 813, ILL 1220, ILL 1462, lLL 2313, and ILL 2684 (Reg. no. GP‐7 to GP‐12, PI 612876 to PI 612881), were released by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas...

Microsatellites, very short tandemly repeated DNA sequences, are being extensively used in evolutionary genetics and molecular breeding of crop plants, because of their high degree of allelic variability, which is presumably caused by a high...

Japan has made an important contribution to restoring and rehabilitating degraded land in CWANA through its support to ICARDA’s work on the improvement of native pastures and rangelands, and the nutrition and management of small ruminants. Not...

This issue of Caravan focuses on the use that ICARDA is making of information technologies to improve the lives of people in the world's dry areas. ICARDA uses different information technology tools such as expert systems, geographic information...

The effectiveness of using seed treatment with imidacloprid (Gaucho®) to reduce the incidence of Bean leaf roll virus (BLRV, family Luteoviridae), Faba bean necrotic yellows virus (FBNYV, genus Nanovirus) and Soybean dwarf virus (SbDV, family...

In an intensive survey of lentil and chickpea fields and research stations plots carried out in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 1997, more than 6505 plant samples were collected and tested by tissue-blot immunoassay (TBIA) for the presence of...

Six lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) germplasm lines, ILL 74 (Reg. no. GP‐208, PI 612870), ILL 75 (Reg. no. GP‐209, PI 612871), ILL 85 (Reg. no. GP‐210, PI 612872), ILL 213 (Reg. no. GP‐211, PI 612873), ILL 214 (Reg. no. GP‐212, PI 612874), and...