World crops: Cool season food legumes: A global perspective of the problems and prospects for crop improvement in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Food legume research sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (A.I.D.)....Pages 3-6
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) international food legume development programme....Pages 7-15
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) support for research on cool season food legume crops in Asia and North Africa....Pages 17-24
Research on cool season food legumes at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)....Pages 25-37
Research on food legumes at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), with special reference to chickpea....Pages 39-45
Activities of the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR)....Pages 47-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Genetic basis for pulse crop improvement: collection, preservation and genetic variation in relation to needed traits....Pages 55-66
Current status of cool season food legume crop improvement: an assessment of critical needs....Pages 67-80
Breeding cool season food legumes for improved performance in stress environments....Pages 81-95
Breeding for disease resistance in pulse crops....Pages 97-106
Screening and breeding for insect resistance in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea....Pages 107-115
Breeding for morphological traits....Pages 117-127
Workshop: integration of information on plant diversity....Pages 129-133
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Factors which limit the productivity of cool season food legumes in Turkey....Pages 137-145
Nitrogen fixation and productivity of chickpea in India....Pages 147-158
Factors which limit production of pea in Burundi....Pages 159-166
Improvement of nitrogen fixation and yield of lentil and chickpea crops in Turkey....Pages 167-174
Potential for winter chickpea in Morocco....Pages 175-180
Impact of conservation tillage on grain legume crops and their associated pests....Pages 181-188
Nitrogen fixation and yield of faba bean, lentil and chickpea in response to selected agricultural practices in Egypt....Pages 189-204
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Phosphorus deficiency in the semi-arid tropics and implications for grain legume production....Pages 205-216
Factors which limit the productivity of cool season food legumes in Nepal....Pages 217-228
Factors which limit cool season food legume productivity in Bangladesh....Pages 229-234
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Managing systems for increasing productivity of pulses in dryland agriculture....Pages 237-255
Stand establishment in pulse crops....Pages 257-269
Water requirements and the irrigation management of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea crops....Pages 271-278
Soil fertility requirements of pea, lentil, chickpea and faba bean....Pages 279-289
Strategies for improving soil and water management research and networking in semi-arid regions of developing countries....Pages 291-300
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Harvesting and storage factors that affect seed quality in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea....Pages 303-329
Seed storage practices and problems for cool season food legumes....Pages 331-339
Methods of harvesting pulse crops....Pages 341-350
Identification, significance and transmission of seed borne pathogens....Pages 351-365
Insect depredation during storage....Pages 367-378
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Seed quality and nutritional goals in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea breeding....Pages 381-404
Utilization of food legumes in human nutrition....Pages 405-411
Trends in product development and the processing of peas in the United Kingdom....Pages 413-420
Future potential of pulses for use in animal feeds....Pages 421-444
Quality screening and evaluation in pulse breeding....Pages 445-457
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Trends, situation and outlook for the world pulse economy....Pages 461-482
Significance of government policies and programmes in international marketing of pulses worldwide....Pages 483-485
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Trends in supply and demand of pulses with special reference to chickpea....Pages 487-500
Future trends in supply and demand of pea and lentil....Pages 501-511
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Workshop: Seed pathogens of food legumes....Pages 515-517
Pest, disease and weed problems in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea....Pages 519-534
Weeds in food legumes: problems, effects and control....Pages 535-548
Parasitic weeds on cool season food legumes....Pages 549-563
Root rot and wilt diseases of food legumes....Pages 565-575
Fungal and bacterial foliar diseases of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea....Pages 577-589
Viruses and virus diseases of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea....Pages 591-615
Front Matter....Pages 617-617
Seedling vigour and susceptibility to diseases and pests....Pages 619-625
Soil compaction and crop residue management effects on root diseases of annual food legumes....Pages 627-647
Interactions of tillage and soil management practices on the biological control of diseases and pests....Pages 649-660
Front Matter....Pages 661-661
Competition for legume nodule occupancy: a down-to-earth limitation on nitrogen fixation....Pages 663-674
Inter-strain competition for rhizosphere colonization and nodule occupancy in the pea, lentil and chickpea/ Rhizobium symbioses....Pages 675-689
Improving symbiotic nitrogen fixation through the genetic manipulation of Rhizobium and legume host plants....Pages 691-702
Rhizosphere interactions with special reference to vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae....Pages 703-713
 15 N addition methods for assessing N 2 fixation under field conditions....Pages 715-730
Role of inoculants in improving nitrogen fixation in legumes....Pages 731-743
Workshop: Use of 15 N in field experiments involving measurement of biologically fixed nitrogen....Pages 745-747
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Partitioning of carbon and nitrogen in the nodulated grain legume: principles, processes and regulation....Pages 751-765
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Oxygen supply to nodules as a limiting factor in symbiotic nitrogen fixation....Pages 767-775
The importance of hydrogen recycling in nitrogen fixation by legumes....Pages 777-791
Translocation and utilization of nitrogen by pulses....Pages 793-800
Environmental effects on nitrogen fixation....Pages 801-810
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Factors which affect water use efficiency in rainfed production of food legumes, and their measurement....Pages 813-829
Winterhardiness in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea....Pages 831-843
High temperature stress....Pages 845-856
Root growth of chickpea, faba bean, lentil, and pea and effects of water and salt stresses....Pages 857-867
Nutrient requirements of pulses....Pages 869-881
Front Matter....Pages 883-883
Critical physiological traits in pulse crops....Pages 885-896
Seed and seedling vigour....Pages 897-910
Photo-thermal regulation of flowering in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea....Pages 911-922
Senescence in pulse crops....Pages 923-930
Role of physiology in pulse crop improvement: a plant breeding perspective....Pages 931-939
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Population improvement in pulse crops: an assessment of methods and techniques....Pages 943-966
Exploitation of wild relatives of the food legumes....Pages 967-978
Applications of isozyme analysis in pulse crops....Pages 979-987
Applications of molecular genetics to crop improvement....Pages 989-999
Selecting and breeding grain legumes for enhanced nitrogen fixation....Pages 1001-1012
Future breeding strategies for pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea....Pages 1013-1029
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Genetic improvement of food legumes in developing countries by mutation induction....Pages 1031-1047
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Cool season food legumes in South and Central America....Pages 1051-1057
Production of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea in North America....Pages 1059-1063
Production of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea in Europe....Pages 1065-1080
Production of cool season food legumes in West Asia and North Africa....Pages 1081-1094
Production of chickpea, lentil, pea and faba bean in South-East Asia....Pages 1095-1111
Cool season food legumes in East Africa....Pages 1113-1124
Production practices and economic importance of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea in New Zealand and Australia....Pages 1125-1133
Production of faba bean and pea in China....Pages 1135-1152
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A personal review of the International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC)....Pages 1155-1167
The International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC): Retrospect and prospect....Pages 1169-1175
Back Matter....Pages 1177-1179