Challenges to Adoption of Improved Legume Varieties: A Gendered Perspective
Limited availability and access to seeds of improved varieties are often blamed for the low adoption of legume-based rotations. In this paper, we use a case study of chickpea and lentil production in Ethiopia and a gendered lens to identify...
Modeling Soil Organic Carbon Changes under Alternative Climatic Scenarios and Soil Properties Using DNDC Model at a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Environment
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the central issues in dealing with soil fertility as well as environmental and food safety. Due to the lack of relevant data sources and methodologies, analyzing SOC dynamics has been a challenge in Morocco...
Regard and protect ground-nesting pollinators as part of soil biodiversity
While the Convention on Biological Diversity employs a habitat-oriented defini-tion of soil biodiversity including all kinds of species living in soil, the Food andAgriculture Organization, since 2002 assigned to safeguard soil biodiversity...
Genome editing techniques in plants: a comprehensive review and future prospects toward zero hunger
Promoting sustainable agriculture and improving nutrition are the main United Nation’s sustainable development goals by 2030. New technologies are required to achieve zero hunger, and genome editing technology is the most promising one. In the...
irregular rainfall mainly during the winter season. The average rainfall in the region is around 500 mm, but most of the cropped lands may receive rainfall in the range of 300–900 mm, varying from year to year, with rainfall distribution also...
Faba bean gall pathogen Physoderma viciae: new primers reveal its puzzling association with the field pea Ascochyta complex
Recent morphological and molecular studies confirmed Physoderma viciae, and not Olpidium viciae, to be the causative agent of the devastating Faba Bean Gall (FBG) disease on faba bean (Vicia faba) in Ethiopia and also highlighted its ability to...
International Winter Wheat nurseries data: Facultative and Winter Wheat Observation Nurseries and International Winter Wheat yield trials for semi-arid and irrigated conditions
This data paper describes the content of 16 datasets collected under the International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (IWWIP), an alliance between Turkey-CIMMYT-ICARDA (TCI), during the 2015–2016, 2016–2017, 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 seasons...
Evaluation of Durum Wheat Genotypes for Resistance against Root Rot Disease Caused by Moroccan Fusarium culmorum Isolates
Fusarium culmorum is one of the most important causal agents of root rot of wheat. In this study, 10 F. culmorum isolates were collected from farms located in five agro-ecological regions of Morocco. These were used to challenge 20 durum wheat...
Optimizing breeding structures and related management in community-based goat breeding programs in the Borana pastoral system of Ethiopia
The study simulated different potential breeding programs to design the optimal breeding structure and operational management structure for Borana goat. It evaluated different scenarios using ZPLAN+ software to maximize the genetic gain...
High accuracy of genome-enabled prediction of belowground and physiological traits in barley seedlings
In plants, the study of belowground traits is gaining momentum due to their importance on yield formation and the uptake of water and nutrients. In several cereal crops, seminal root number and seminal root angle are proxy traits of the root...
