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World crops: Cool season food legumes

A global perspective of the problems and prospects for crop improvement in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. R. J. Summerfield

    1. University of Reading, Reading, UK

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Part of the book series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture (PSBA, volume 5)

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Table of contents (91 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxviii
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  2. International programmes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Food legume research sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (A.I.D.)

      • N. C. Brady
      Pages 3-6

    3. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) international food legume development programme

      • H. A. Al-Jibouri
      Pages 7-15

    4. International Development Research Centre (IDRC) support for research on cool season food legume crops in Asia and North Africa

      • G. C. Hawtin, G. R. Potts
      Pages 17-24

    5. Research on cool season food legumes at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

      • M. C. Saxena, P. R. Goldsworthy
      Pages 25-37

    6. Research on food legumes at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), with special reference to chickpea

      • Y. L. Nene, J. S. Kanwar
      Pages 39-45

    7. Activities of the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR)

      • J. T. Williams, N. Murthi Anishetty, J. Konopka
      Pages 47-51

  3. Genetic resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Genetic basis for pulse crop improvement: collection, preservation and genetic variation in relation to needed traits

      • L. J. G. Van Der Maesen, W. J. Kaiser, G. A. Marx, M. Worede
      Pages 55-66

    3. Current status of cool season food legume crop improvement: an assessment of critical needs

      • G. C. Hawtin, F. J. Muehlbauer, A. E. Slinkard, K. B. Singh
      Pages 67-80

    4. Breeding cool season food legumes for improved performance in stress environments

      • I. W. Buddenhagen, R. A. Richards
      Pages 81-95

    5. Breeding for disease resistance in pulse crops

      • C. C. Bernier, G. Bijiga, Y. L. Nene, R. Cousin
      Pages 97-106

    6. Screening and breeding for insect resistance in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea

      • W. Reed, C. Cardona, S. S. Lateef, S. I. Bishara
      Pages 107-115

    7. Breeding for morphological traits

      • W. Erskine, A. M. Nassib, A. Telaye
      Pages 117-127

    8. Workshop: integration of information on plant diversity

      • R. H. Lockerman, F. A. Bisby, L. J. G. Van Der Maesen
      Pages 129-133

  4. Cropping systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Factors which limit the productivity of cool season food legumes in Turkey

      • D. Sakar, N. Durutan, K. Meyveci
      Pages 137-145

    3. Nitrogen fixation and productivity of chickpea in India

      • N. S. Subba Rao
      Pages 147-158

    4. Factors which limit production of pea in Burundi

      • M. Nijimbere, M. Kayibigi, A. Autrique, A. D. Malithano
      Pages 159-166
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About this book

The genesis of the International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC) can be traced back to 1983 - and so this Volume, the Proceedings of that Conference, has had a gestation period of close to five years. Professor Norman Simmonds, the perennial Book Review Editor of Experimental Agriculture, has expressed the opinion (vol. 22, p. 201, 1986) that "Many symposial volumes are just plain awful!" Elsewhere (Nature vol. 312, pp. 201-2, 1984), Anthony Watkinson - then a Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press has described several reasons which have led him to believe that "Conference proceedings - symposia - are generally disliked . . . . To put it mildly, this type of publication has a bad name". The problems, from an author's perspective, of contributing to any many-authored publication are aired in an exchange of correspondence in Biologist (vol. 30, pp. 123 and 180, 1983; and vol. 31, pp. 3 and 69,1984). And from the editor's viewpoint, D. J. Weatherall - then Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford - has described (Nature vol. 317, p.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, Reading, UK

    R. J. Summerfield

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: World crops: Cool season food legumes

  • Book Subtitle: A global perspective of the problems and prospects for crop improvement in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea

  • Editors: R. J. Summerfield

  • Series Title: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2764-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3641-6Due: 31 July 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2764-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-1949

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 1230

  • Topics: Plant Sciences

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