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Spineless Cactus
May 29, 2021

Spineless Cactus

With its multi-functionality, spineless cactus has become one of the most promising 'under-utilized species' of the dry regions. Used for centuries by traditional rural farmers, it is only since ICARDA's peer-reviewed research and dryland...
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Forage Legumes
May 29, 2021

Forage Legumes

ICARDA's efforts to promote dryland forage legumes are based on genetic resources, seed production, and management. Research based on several long‐term barley‐ and wheat‐based rotation trials have demonstrated forage legumes' viability...
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Grass Pea
May 29, 2021

Grass Pea

ICARDA breeding efforts are underway to reduce the neurotoxin content in grass pea, as well as to improve its seed yield and biomass, to provide a remunerative crop for safe consumption by humans and animals. Grass pea is a multi-purpose, hardy...
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Heat Priming of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) Seeds and Foliar Treatment with γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA), Confers Protection to Reproductive Function and Yield Traits under High-Temperature Stress Environments
May 29, 2021

Heat Priming of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) Seeds and Foliar Treatment with γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA), Confers Protection to Reproductive Function and Yield Traits under High-Temperature Stress Environments

Gradually increasing temperatures at global and local scales are causing heat stress for cool and summer-season food legumes, such as lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.), which is highly susceptible to heat stress, especially during its reproductive...

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Our Climate Smart Crops - Faba Bean
May 27, 2021

Faba Bean

ICARDA is improving the productivity and yield stability of faba bean by aiming to make sure responses to biotic and abiotic stress factors, such as climatic conditions and diseases, are effectively controlled and inherent yield potential is...
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Overcoming constraints of scaling: Critical and empirical perspectives on agricultural innovation scaling
May 27, 2021

Overcoming constraints of scaling: Critical and empirical perspectives on agricultural innovation scaling

Scaling is a ubiquitous concept in agricultural research in the global south as donors require their research grantees to prove that their results can be scaled to impact upon the livelihoods of a large number of beneficiaries. Recent studies on...

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Evaluation of disease resistant and high yielding faba bean germplasm in India
May 27, 2021

Evaluation of disease resistant and high yielding faba bean germplasm in India

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is one of the earliest domesticated food legumes after chickpea and pea in the world. It is been produced in many countries including China, Ethiopia, Egypt, northern Europe, the Mediterranean region, central Asia, East...

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Our Climate Smart Crops - Barley
May 26, 2021

Barley

Since 1977, ICARDA has released more than 250 barley varieties in 46 countries under CGIAR's Global Barley Breeding Program. The ICARDA genebank network and research stations in North Africa and West and South Asia test the new barley varieties...
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Our Climate Smart Crops - Kabuli Chickpea
May 26, 2021

Kabuli chickpea

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...
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Climate Smart Crops - Lentils
May 26, 2021

Lentils

With expertise in the Near East Fertile Crescent, ICARDA has long recognized the potential of lentil and is seeking ways to take advantage of its high nutritional value and low water use that makes it well adapted to cereal-based cropping in dry...
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