Papers Presented at ‘The International Conference on Soil Fertility and Soil Productivity’ 17–20 March 2010, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany
Papers Presented At 'The International Conference On Soil Fertility And Soil Productivity' 17-20 March 2010, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, Germany Preface.
A Participatory GIS Approach for Assessing Land Suitability for Rainwater Harvesting in an Arid Rangeland Environment
The dry rangelands of West Asia and North Africa are fragile and severely degraded due to low rainfall and mismanagement of natural resources. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) interventions are used to increase soil moisture content, vegetation cover...
Pathogenicity Spectra And Screening For Resistance In Barley Against Tunisian Pyrenophora Teres F. Teres
This work aimed to determine patterns of pathogenicity in Pyrenophora teres f. teres and to identify potentially effective resistance sources that could be used as breeding material to control net blotch in Tunisia. Extensive pathogenic...
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus subsp. culinaris) is one of the oldest food legumes and is the third most important one in Morocco. It provides a valuable and balanced protein source in the human diet and plays an important role in cropping...
This issue of Caravan describes the new program, and some of the research innovations it will build on. The issue begins with two ‘opinion pieces’ by scientists from partner organizations in the CRP. They share lessons learnt from past successes...
Soil-landscape modeling and land suitability evaluation: the case of rainwater harvesting in a dry rangeland environment
The arid to semi-arid region is characterized by a scarcity of land and water resources, which threatens the livelihoods of the inhabitants. Rainwater harvesting is an important practice to improve water and land productivity and to cope with...
Poverty, food insecurity, natural resource degradation and climate change are global challenges; but they impact most severely on rural communities in dry areas. Addressing these challenges requires a combination of good science, integrated...
Registration of ‘Kharoba’: A Bread Wheat Cultivar Developed through Doubled Haploid Breeding
A hard red spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar developed using doubled haploid technology by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Morocco, and tested as 00DHBW300, was approved for release in 2010 by the Office...
Effect of some insecticides on parasitoid, aphelinus mali hald (hymenoptera: aphelinidae) of the woolly apple aphid eriosoma Lanigerum Hausmann
The toxicity of six insecticides (Deltamethrin, Chlorpyrifos, Acetamiprid, Diflubenzuron, Lufenuron and Fenoxycarb) was investigated on Aphelinus mali Hald. Infests the woolly apple aphid Eriosoma lanigerum Hausmann using three laboratory test...
Allelic Variations Of A Light Harvesting Chlorophyll A/B-Binding Protein Gene (Lhcb1) Associated With Agronomic Traits In Barley
Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein (LHCP) is one of the most abundant chloroplast proteins in plants. Its main function is to collect and transfer light energy to photosynthetic reaction centers. However, the roles of different...
