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...
Variation in soil chemical properties along toposequences in an arid region of the Levant
Detailed characterization of soils and their variation along different topography positions has not been investigated in depth for Mediterranean arid regions. There is a need to accurately understand the variation and the spatial distribution of...
Modeling unstructured heterogeneity along with spatially correlated errors in field trials
In this paper we consider analysis of two experimental data sets for evaluating lentil genotypes. One of these data sets comes from an incomplete block design and the other one from a complete block design. The incomplete blocks contribute to...
Adaptation of Small-Seeded Red Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik. subsp. culinaris) to Diverse Environments
The lentil improvement program of ICARDA benefits from the information generated by the Legume International Nursery Network operating globally. Over the period 1996 to 2002, 12 different types of trials comprising lentil genotypes with weights
The dry areas face severe challenges to sustainable development. The biggest challenges – food insecurity, water scarcity, land degradation, and climate change – are closely inter-related. The effects of climate change will be felt globally, but...
Manure application setback effect on phosphorus and sediment in runoff
Surface application of animal manure increases nutrients at the soil surface with increased potential for nutrient loss in runoff. Non-application setbacks are often required with the intent to reduce nutrient loss to surface water. The...
