ICARDA annual report 2004

ICARDA Annual Report 2004
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University of Leuven
- Joint supervision of MSc graduate
research on integrated
assessment of land degradation.
- Cooperation with in research on
strengthening livelihood
resilience in the Karkeh River
Basin in Iran.
CANADA
Agriculture Canada, Field Crop
Development Centre, Alberta
- Development of barley
germplasm with multiple disease
resistance.
University of Guelph, School of
Rural Development and Planning,
Ontario
- Role of women in resource management
and household livelihood
strategies.
University of Guelph, Ontario
Agriculture College, Department
of Plant Agriculture
- Modeling Sustainability of
Cropping Systems based on
Long-term Trials
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
- Collaboration in tan spot disease
University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon
- Genetic improvement of resistance
to Ascochyta blight and
Anthracnose in Lentil.
- Evaluation of chickpea for
Ascochyta blight resistance.
- Evaluation of resistance of
chickpea germplasm and their
wild relatives to vascular wilt.
DENMARK
Risø National Laboratory, Plant
Biology and Biogeochemistry
Department
- Genetic mapping in barley
- Barley pathology
- Integrated cereal disease management
in Eritrea.
Danish Institute of Agriculture
Sciences (DIAS)
- Yellow rust of wheat
- Integrated cereal disease management
in Eritrea.
Danish International
Development Agency (Danida)
- Cooperation in the development
of appropriate seed processing
technology in Vietnam.
EGYPT
AGERI (Agricultural Genetic
Engineering Research Institute),
Cairo
- Development of transformation
systems for wheat and barley:
gene discovery for tolerance to
abiotic stresses.
- Transformation systems for
lentil, chickpea and faba bean.
- Assessment of factors leading to
deterioration of fig trees in the
dry areas of Egypt and development
of virus free fig seedlings.
CLAES (Central Laboratory for
Agricultural Expert Systems),
Cairo, Egypt
- Collaboration in delivering a
regional training course on utilization
of expert systems in
agricultural research and production.
- Collaboration in development
and utilization of intelligent systems
in plant protection
- Collaboration in upgrading and
regionalizing expert systems for
faba bean and wheat.
FINLAND
Agricultural Research Center of
Finland (MTT)
- Nutritional aspects of grain
legumes
FRANCE
CIRAD (Centre de Coopération
Internationale en Recherche
Agronomique pour le
Développement)
- Bioeconomic and agro-pastoral
community modeling studies in
WANA.
- Socioeconomic studies of rangeland
management in WANA.
- Global program for direct sowing,
mulch-based systems and
conservation tillage.
Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique (INRA)
- Morphophysiological traits associated
with constraints of
Mediterranean dryland conditions
in durum wheat.
- Water balance studies in cereallegume
rotations in semi-arid
mediterranean zone.
- Collaboration on cereal cyst
nematodes.
- Genotyping of crop wild relatives.
- Biological control and botanical
pesticides against insect pests.
- Studies on salt tolerance in cereals
and food legumes.
- Evaluating the performance of
crop model STICS developed by
INRA.
L’Institut de Recherche pour le
Développement (IRD)
- Cooperation in the establishment
of a network on water
information.
Université de Paris-Sud, Labo
Morphogenese Vegetale
Experimentale
- Production of doubled haploids
in bread wheat and barley
GERMANY
University of Bonn
- QTL analysis in barley