ICARDA annual report 2004

ICARDA Annual Report 2004
108
RUSSIA
All Russian Institute of
Agricultural Biotechnology,
Moscow
- Establishment of barley transformation
system
The N.I. Vavilov All-Russian
Scientific Research Institute of
Plant Genetic Resources (VIR)
- Genetic resources exchange,
joint collection missions and collaboration
in genetic resources
evaluation and documentation.
- Bread wheat eco-geographic
diversity studies
SPAIN
University of Barcelona
- Durum and bread wheat stress
physiology
- Barley stress physiology
- Mapping adaptation of barley to
drought environments
University of Cordoba
- Durum grain quality
UdL-IRTA (University of Lleida
and Institut de Recerca i
Technologia Agroalimentaria -
IRTA)
- Mapping adaptation of barley to
drought environments
SWITZERLAND
Institut Universitaire d’Études du
Développement (IUED), Geneva
- Sustainable dryland resource
management in the arid margins
of Syria.
Station Fédérale de Recherches
Agronomiques de Changins
(RAC), Nyon
- Duplication of Lathyrus genetic
resources and data
Swiss Centre for International
Agriculture
- Improving resistance to barley
scald through understanding
the processes that govern the
evolution of Rhynchosporium
secalis populations
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Animal
Nutrition Department
- Feeding systems and quality of
sheep milk products
University of Bern
- World Overview of
Conservation Approaches and
Technologies (WOCAT)
Swiss College of Agriculture
- Joint supervision of student
research in livestock production.
- Joint supervision of graduate
student on water harvesting
THAILAND
Khon Kaen University
- Technical assistance to ICARDA
on livestock management in
Pakistan.
UNITED KINGDOM
Birmingham University
- Collaboration in advising students
on in situ conservation.
Bristol University
- Analysis of the climatology of
rainfall obtained from satellite
and surface data for the
Mediterranean basin.
CABI Bioscience
- Entomopathogenic fungi for
Sunn pest control
Macaulay Land Use Research
Institute
- Research planning on feeding
systems for small ruminant production
in the dry areas.
- Joint Ph.D. study on analysis of
long-term rotational trials in
sheep and fodder production in
Syria together with Reading
University, U.K.
Natural Resources Institute,
University of Greenwich
- Sunn pest pheromones
University of Reading
- Gender analysis in the agricultural
systems of WANA.
- Testing wooly-pod vetch in hillside
project in Uganda.
Scottish Crop Research Institute
- Mapping adaptation of barley to
drought environments
UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
Busch Agricultural Resources Inc.
- Development of barley
germplasm with multiple disease
resistance and enhanced
malting quality.
University of California, Riverside
- Biodiversity of wheat wild relatives
University of California, Davis
- GL-CRSP (Global Livestock
Collaborative Research Support
Program): rangeland production
and utilization in Central Asia.
- Developing chickpea cultivars
with resistance to Ascochyta
blight.
- Study of genetic diversity in natural
populations of Aegilops spp
- Study of genetic diversity and
evolution in cultivated and wild
lentil, peas and chickpea
Colorado State University
- Testing for stripe rust in barley
Cornell University
- Use of molecular markers for
genome mapping and markerassisted
selection for stress
resistance in durum wheat.
- Spatial variability in lentil trials.