Evapotranspiration: progress in measurement and modeling in agriculture
This article provides a focused survey of progress in crop evapotranspiration (ET) measurement and modeling, with particular emphasis on the aspects of interest to the irrigation profession. The significant advances in understanding and...
The Jabali mountain goats inhabit the extremly unfriendly and harsh environment of western Syria, where they are kept by different ethnic groups, namely, the Alawits, Druses and Bedouins. The Jabali goat is a black goat, with dropping cars and a...
Mapping adaptation of barley to droughted environments
Identifying barley genomic regions influencing the response of yield and its components to water deficits will aid in our understanding of the genetics of drought tolerance and the development of more drought tolerant cultivars. We assembled a...
The effect of Gossypium C-genome chromosomes on resistance to fusarium wilt in allotetraploid cotton
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Fov) has the potential to become the most economically significant pathogen of cotton in Australia. Although the levels of resistance present in the new commercial cultivars have improved significantly...
Survey of faba bean and field pea viruses in Yunnan Province, China
In a survey of faba bean ( Vicia faba) and field pea ( Pisum sativum)fields in China's Yunnan Province during March 2004, more than 5000 plant samples were collected from 35 locations and tested by tissue-blot immunoassay for the presence of up...
Changement réel et changement induit Décalage ou perpétuelle recherche pour les zones arides d'Afrique du Nord
L'histoire des politiques de développement économique et social au Maghreb a fortement marqué l'évolution des systèmes agropastoraux des zones arides. En l'espace de 50 ans, on est passé de systèmes d'élevage pastoraux à des systèmes mixtes...
Promoting the adoption of natural resource management technology in arid and semi-arid areas: Modelling the impact of spineless cactus in alley cropping in Central Tunisia
The arid and semi-arid areas of North Africa arc becoming deserts. Most of the research and development projects in these areas aim at developing alternative technologies to reduce land degradation and favour sustainable economic activities. The...
