Nitrogen Fixation by Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture: Proceedings of a workshop on Biological Nitrogen Fixation on Mediterranean-type Agriculture, ICARDA, Syria, April 14–17, 1986

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Role of Pasture and Forage Legumes in Livestock Based Farming Systems....Pages 3-10
Food Legumes in the Mediterranean Type of Environment and ICARDA’s Efforts in Improving their Productivity....Pages 11-23
Development of a Regional Program on Biological Nitrogen Fixation to Enhance Agricultural Production in the Near East....Pages 25-31
Maximizing Biological Nitrogen Fixation by Forage and Pasture Legumes in Semi-Arid Areas....Pages 33-40
The Use of Biological Nitrogen Fixation to Develop Livestock and Cereal Production in Morocco....Pages 41-46
Annual Forage Legumes in the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Turkey....Pages 47-54
The Role of Legumes in Agricultural Production in Cyprus....Pages 55-63
Woody Legumes in Arid and Semi-arid Zones: the Rhizobium-Prosopis chilensis Symbiosis....Pages 65-72
Biological Nitrogen Fixation Research on Grain Legumés in Ethiopia — An Overview....Pages 73-78
The Status of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Research in Lebanon....Pages 79-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Analysis of the Host Genes Controlling the Legume- Rhizobium Symbiosis: Some Technical Problems and Pitfalls....Pages 93-100
Cloning Gene(s) for Competitive Nodulation Blocking on Afghanistan Peas from Rhizobium leguminosarum ....Pages 101-107
Physiology and Genetics of Rhizobium Nodulating Chickpeas ( Cicer arietinum L.)....Pages 109-119
 Rhizobium Strains from Wild and Primitive Legumes: A Nuisance or a Valuable Gene Pool?....Pages 121-129
Host- Rhizobium Relationships and their Implications for Legume Breeding....Pages 131-143
Infection, Development and Functioning of Nodules Under Drought and Salinity....Pages 145-151
The Role of Mycorrhiza in Improving the Establishment and Function of the Rhizobium -Legume System under Field Conditions....Pages 153-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Ecological Aspects of the Root-Nodule Bacteria: Competition and Survival....Pages 165-172
The Microbial Aspects of Faba Bean Culture....Pages 173-178
Numerical Effects of Rhizobium Population on Legume Symbiosis....Pages 179-193
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Identification and Characterization of Rhizobia Using the ELISA Technique....Pages 195-206
Selection of Rhizobium Strains....Pages 207-223
Selection of Rhizobia for Inoculation of Forage Legumes in Savanna and Rainforest Soils of Tropical America....Pages 225-234
Field Performance of Rhizobial Inoculants for Some Important Legumes in Egypt....Pages 235-244
Effect of Rhizobium Inoculation, Lime and Addition of Molybdenum on the Yield of Vicia faba ....Pages 245-249
Seed Inoculation and Inoculant Technology....Pages 251-258
Legume Inoculants; Their Technology and Application....Pages 259-268
Inoculant Production in Turkey....Pages 269-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
The Role of Legume, Rhizobium , and Environment in Nitrogen Fixation: Constraints on Symbiotic Potential and their Removal....Pages 275-285
Influence of some Agroclimatic Factors and Agronomic Practices on Nitrogen Nutrition of Chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.)....Pages 287-301
Effect of Edaphic Factors on Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Vicia faba under Egyptian Field Conditions....Pages 303-319
Biological Nitrogen Fixation by Faba Bean, Lentil, and Chickpea in the Traditional Versus the New Areas of the Sudan....Pages 321-329
Measurement of Nitrogen Fixation by the Acetylene Reduction Assay; Myths and Mysteries....Pages 331-344
The Use of 15 N Enriched Fertilizers for Estimating Nitrogen Fixation in Grain and Pasture Legumes....Pages 345-358
Isotope Dilution as a Method for Measuring Nitrogen Transfer from Forage Legumes to Grasses....Pages 359-365
Extension/Transfer of BNF Technology....Pages 367-370
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
Workshop Synthesis and Recommendations Developed from Group Discussions....Pages 373-379