ICARDA Research Mandate: Mandate in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA)

Kabuli chickpea improvement

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Winter-sown chickpea ILC 3279 in a farmer’s field in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria.

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Kabuli chickpea improvement

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Chickpea harvest.

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Central Asia. Kazakstan chickpea scientist Dr Baizomat Janizbayev discusses the performance of winter chickpea in a chickpea research plot at Almalybak, Kazakstan with ICARDA’s Dr Victor Shevtsov (right).

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Screening for drought tolerance in chickpea using late spring planting in WANA to select resistant lines.

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Screening chickpea lines for resistance to Fusarium wilt in a wilt-sick plot in Ethiopia. The susceptible control, middle, wilted and turned yellow, while the resistant lines planted left and right faired much better.