First Report Of Wheat Dwarf Virus And Its Vector (Psammotettix Provincialis) Affecting Wheat And Barley Crops In Syria
A field survey covering the major cereal-production areas of Syria was conducted during May 2009. A total of 938 wheat and 971 barley samples with typical symptoms of viral infection were collected from 45 wheat and 58 barley fields. All...
Drought risk assessment in pasture arid Morocco through remote sensing
During the last three decades, Morocco has experienced several stern and extended episodes of drought that severely affected pasture production. To cope with this phenomenon, the policy makers have put emphasis on a reactive short term...
New Approaches for the Study of Osmotic Stress Induced by Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) in Cereal Species
Literature confirms that using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as an osmotic agent to imitate water shortage was not so easy in practice, due to PEG toxicity effects and frequent contaminations. Two new approaches were developed to alleviate those...
Ethiopia and ICARDA have worked together for more than 30 years, to promote sustainable agricultural development in dry areas. This booklet describes the results of this partnership: new technologies and research methods, growth in technology...
The government of France and a number of French research organizations have supported ICARDA’s work for more than 30 years. This support has helped to significantly improve farm productivity, incomes and livelihoods in dry and marginal areas...
Micro-catchment water harvesting potential of an arid environment
Micro-catchment water harvesting (MCWH) requires development of small structures across mild land slopes, which capture overland flow and store it in soil profile for subsequent plant uses. Water availability to plants depends on the micro...
Performance of Penman-Monteith FAO56 in Semiarid Highland Environment
Reliable estimates of evapotranspiration are essential for irrigation and water resources planning and management. Although several methods are available for computing reference evapotranspiration (ETo)(ETo), the provision of complete and...
Development of 1000 Microsatellite Markers across the Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Genome
Date Palm is a major environmental and economic factor in arid climates in many countries around the world. Microsatellite markers have been proven to be very powerful in plant genome analysis because they are locus-specific, codominant, highly...
Occurrence and distribution of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) isolates in central Ethiopia
A survey for BYDV was carried out in Ethiopia during the main rainy season of 1995 and the short rainy season of 1996 in the major barley-growing areas of the Arsi, North Shewa (Oromiya and Amhara regions) and West Shewa zones. Barley fields...
Improving wheat stripe rust resistance in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Wheat is the most important cereal in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici is considered the...
