This issue of Caravan describes some of ICARDA's work on climate change. It contains overviews of the key issues, and articles describing research in specific areas. We examine, for example, how genetic resources – landrace varieties, wild...
Ties that Bind: Jordan and ICARDA. 30 years of partnership for sustainable agriculture
Collaboration between ICARDA and Jordan began when ICARDA was established in 1977. A bilateral agreement was signed on 27 October that year. The first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the Ministry of Agriculture, identifying...
SuperSAGE: the drought stress-responsive transcriptome of chickpea roots
Background Drought is the major constraint to increase yield in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Improving drought tolerance is therefore of outmost importance for breeding. However, the complexity of the trait allowed only marginal progress. A...
Nitrate‐n test as a guide to N fertilization of Weat in the mediterranean region
Forty factorial experiments with 4 levels of N (0, 40, 80, and 120 kg N/ha and 4 levels of P (0, 8.8, 17.5, and 35 kg P/ha) with two replicates were conducted in farmers’ fields during two consecutive seasons in 1987 and 1988. The sites chosen...
Survey of chocolate spot (Botrytis fabae) disease of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) and assessment of factors influencing disease epidemics in northern Ethiopia
