Techniques to enhance the genetic gain in crop breeding programs
As the climate crisis intensifies, populations grow, disease and pest proliferate, and natural resources diminish, genetic improvement of crops within holistic breeding programs is crucial to reaching global food security. For over 40 years...
Plant Resistance to Cereal and Food Legume Insect pests in North Africa, West and Central Asia: Challenges and Achievements
Even though host plant resistance has long been recognized as the foundation of integrated pest management, research in North Africa, West and Central Asia only started in 1980. The recent use of Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy has...
As demand for wheat grows rapidly across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, ICARDA is urgently addressing the growing climatic challenges, pests, and diseases that hinder its domestic production by generating an effective wheat-breeding strategy...
Socio-economic impacts of zero and reduced tillage in wheat fields of the Moroccan drylands
Zero tillage (ZT) is recommended for dryland farming because it enhances retention of residual soil moisture. However, it is not always clear whether this translates to an economic advantage over conventional tillage, which helps in controlling...
ICARDA's Durum Wheat Breeding Program aims to deliver superior varieties with increased yields against a backdrop of rapid climate change. ICARDA's durum wheat program also seeks to reverse the erosion of the crop's genetic diversity resulting...
ICARDA's bread wheat breeding program applies both conventional and molecular approaches to develop and distribute elite bread wheat genotypes, including shuttle breeding, doubled haploids, speed breeding, marker-assisted selection, and critical...
Recognizing Kabuli chickpea's ability to grow in poor, rainfed soils, ICARDA's breeding program improves the crop by breeding-in heat and disease resistance traits while introducing the crop into rotation with conventional cereal crops and other...
First combined resistance to Hessian fly and Sunn pest identified in synthetic hexaploid wheat
… (Puton), are the two most damaging insect pests of wheat in North Africa, West and Central Asia. Host plant … of controlling insect pests. Twenty synthetic hexaploid wheat lines selected as resistant to Syrian Sunn pest in … flat. The results showed that three synthetic hexaploid wheat lines exhibited resistance to both Moroccan Hessian …
