ICARDA News

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

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Website: www.icarda.org
26 January 2006
                             Media contact: Surendra Varma (s.varma@CGIAR.ORG)
 
Dr Bohssini Appointed Adjunct Faculty Member at KSU
Dr Mustapha El Bouhssini, Entomologist at ICARDA, has been appointed as an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Department of Entomology at Kansas State University (KSU), USA, starting from 1 December 2005. Mustapha’s association with KSU dates back to 1984 when, as an INRA-Morocco staff member, he joined KSU for his MSc Program and worked with Dr J. Hatchett on resistance in wheat to Hessian fly and biotypes. Through his MSc research work, the first resistance genes effective against the Hessian fly in Morocco were identified. The identification of these genes in 1984 was the foundation for subsequent breeding work on Hessian fly in Morocco.

Mustapha's close linkages with KSU faculty members have continued through the years since finishing his MSc in 1986 and PhD in 1992; his dissertation for PhD was also on Hessian fly. Two joint collaborative programs between ICARDA and KSU are underway, one on Hessian fly genetics and the other on resistance in barley to Russian wheat aphid. Dr Ming Chen, USDA-ARS Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the entomology department at KSU, visited ICARDA in June 2004 when he started joint studies with ICARDA on genes from Hessian fly salivary glands.

As an Adjunct Faculty Member, Dr El Bouhssini and his colleagues at KSU will work together to strengthen the collaboration between ICARDA and KSU. We wish them success.


For more information contact: Dr Mustapha El-Bouhssini

About ICARDA: Established in 1977, ICARDA (www.icarda.org) serves the entire developing world for the improvement of barley, lentil, and faba bean; and dry-area developing countries for the on-farm management of water, improvement of nutrition and productivity of small ruminants (sheep and goats), and rehabilitation and management of rangelands. In the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region, ICARDA is responsible for the improvement of durum and bread wheats, chickpea, pasture and forage legumes and farming systems; and for the protection and enhancement of the natural resource base of water, land, and biodiversity.

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) (www.cgiar.org) is a strategic alliance of countries, international and regional organizations, and private foundations supporting15 international research centers that mobilizes cutting-edge science to promote sustainable development by reducing hunger and poverty, improving human nutrition and health, and protecting the environment.
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