Linking Research and Marketing Opportunities for Pulses in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Third International Food Legumes Research Conference

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
The Pulse Economy in the Mid-1990s: A Review of Global and Regional Developments....Pages 1-29
Agricultural Systems Intensification and Diversification through Food Legumes: Technological and Policy Options....Pages 31-46
Trends in support for research and development of cool season food legumes in the developing countries....Pages 47-58
Trends in Support for Research and Development of Cool Season Food Legumes in the Developed Countries....Pages 59-66
Regional Reviews, Region 1: North America....Pages 67-70
Region 2: South America....Pages 71-77
Production and uses of grain legumes in the European Union....Pages 79-97
Region 4: Sub-Sahara Africa....Pages 99-105
Region 5: Near East....Pages 107-114
Region 6: Asia -Pacific: Meeting the Challenge....Pages 115-129
Regional reviews: The Australian Scene....Pages 131-142
World and Regional Trade: Quantity versus Quality....Pages 143-153
Processing and Grain Quality To Meet Market Demands....Pages 155-166
Produce quality: bulk and niche market opportunities for food and feed....Pages 167-171
Produce quality of food legumes: Genotype (G), environment (E) and (GxE) considerations....Pages 173-182
Breeding for yield: The direct approach....Pages 183-190
Breeding for increased biomass and persistent crop residues in cool-season food legumes.....Pages 191-197
Direct and indirect influences of morphological variations on diseases, yield and quality.....Pages 199-220
Market Demands and Research Opportunities: addressing the supply / demand gap for pulses....Pages 221-233
The impact of production from the Indian sub-continent on world trade in pulses....Pages 235-242
Trends in pulse crop diversification in western Canada and effects on world trade....Pages 243-249
Relations between demand and production of edible pulses for food and feed in China....Pages 251-256
Opportunities for improved adaptation via further domestication.....Pages 257-263
Using models to assess the value of traits of food legumes from a cropping systems perspective....Pages 265-278
Autumn sowing of lentil in the Mediterranean highlands: Lessons for chickpea....Pages 279-288
Adaptation of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and faba bean (Vicia faba L.) to Australia....Pages 289-303
Innovations in processing and marketing-Lessons from the vertical integration of the U.S. soybean industry....Pages 305-309
Opportunities for Pulses in Foods and Non-Food Industrial Processes by Fractionation....Pages 311-321
The Role of Legumes in Sustainable Cereal Production in Rainfed Areas....Pages 323-334
Nitrogen Nutrition of Legume Crops and Interactions with Water....Pages 335-346
Effects of Reduced Tillage on Food Legume Productivity....Pages 347-353
Towards the More Efficient Use of Water and Nutrients in Food Legume Cropping....Pages 355-368
 Lathyrus sativus : a crop for harsh environments....Pages 369-373
When and where will vetches have an impact as grain legumes?....Pages 375-384
Impact of biotechnological interventions on productivity and product quality....Pages 385-387
Gene Technology for Improved Weed, Insect, and Disease Control and for Seed Protein Quality.....Pages 389-396
How similar are the genomes of the cool season food legumes?....Pages 397-410
Wide crossing: opportunities and progress....Pages 411-419
Marker technology for plant breeding....Pages 421-427
Tissue Culture and Protoplast Fusion of Cool-Season Pulses: Pea ( Pisum sativum L.) and Chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.)....Pages 429-436
Foliar Diseases of Cool Season Food Legumes and Their Control....Pages 437-455
Soilborne Diseases and their Control....Pages 457-466
Opportunities for integrated management of insect pests of grain legumes....Pages 467-480
Integrated weed management for food legumes and lupins....Pages 481-490
Integrated Control of Nematodes of Cool Season Food Legumes....Pages 491-506
Potential for Pulses in Aquaculture Systems....Pages 507-516
Potential and challenges in the marketing of lupins for food and feed....Pages 517-520
The use of pulses in Japan....Pages 521-523
The use of pulses for feed in Australia....Pages 525-529
The role of pulses in the Asian livestock industry....Pages 531-540
Lupin Breeding in Australia....Pages 541-547
Development of lupins as a crop in Australia....Pages 549-559
Lupinus albus as a European crop....Pages 561-567
The Potential of Lupinus mutabilis as a crop....Pages 569-573
Research that Overcame the Impediments to Production and Marketing of Lupins in Western Australia....Pages 575-587
Are Our Germplasm Collections Museum Items?....Pages 589-602
Cicer species - Conserved Resources, Priorities for Collection and Future Prospects....Pages 603-611
Lens spp: Conserved resources, priorities for collection and future prospects....Pages 613-620
Lens species, conserved resources in India....Pages 621-622
Vicia spp: Conserved resources, priorities for collection and future prospects....Pages 623-633
 Lupinus ssp : conserved resources, priorities for collection and future prospects....Pages 635-644
 Lathyrus spp: Conserved Resources, Priorities for Collection and Future Prospects....Pages 645-654
Food legumes in Human Nutrition....Pages 655-660
Chemical and physical factors influencing the nutritional value and subsequent utilisation of food legumes by livestock....Pages 661-670
Towards the elimination of anti-nutritional factors in grain legumes....Pages 671-683
New Technologies for Toxin Analyses in Food Legumes....Pages 685-692
Evidence of gains in nutritional quality in Lathyrus sativus ....Pages 693-697
The Ever Changing World of Food Legumes....Pages 699-701
Conference Summary: A Review of the Marketing Papers....Pages 703-704
Back Matter....Pages 705-707