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Category : Legumes
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Legumes Entomology
Author: Insect Pests of Tropical Food Legumes
Author: S. R. SinghPublisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This work collates the information on the advances made in the control of pests of tropical food legumes, namely the cowpea, soybean, groundnut, pigeon pea and other beans. Contributors are entomologists from the IITA, the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and researchers working in Africa, Latin America and Asia. An introduction from the USDA covers the general morphology, ecosystems, regions, distributions and uses of the crops. Chapters discuss field and storage pests, examining the taxonomy, identification, biology and bionomics, geographical distribution, status, damage symptoms and control measures for each pest covered. Also features a chapter on virus vestors and transmission of viruses and suggests strategies for future control and management of insect pests.
The Legume Pod Borer, Maruca Vitrata
Author: Hari Chand SharmaPublisher:
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Category : Legumes
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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World crops: Cool season food legumes
Author: R.J. SummerfieldPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400927649
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1149
Book Description
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.
Expanding the Production and Use of Cool Season Food Legumes
Author: Fred J. MuehlbauerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940110798X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
The goal of the Second International Food Legume Research Conference held in Cairo, Egypt was to build on the success of the first conference held nearly 6 years earlier at Spokane, Washington, USA. It was at that first conference where the decision was made to hold the second Conference in Egypt and so near the ancestral home of these food legume crops. It has been a long held view that the cool season food legumes had their origin in the Mediterranean basin and the Near-east arc, and there is little doubt that food legumes were a staple food of the ancient Egyptian civilization. The cool season food legumes have the reputation for producing at least some yield under adverse conditions of poor fertility and limited moisture, i. e. , in circumstances where other crops are likely to fail completely. Yields of cool season food legumes are particularly poor in those regions where they are most important to local populations. The influx of more profitable crops such as wheat, maize, and soybeans have gradually relegated the food legumes to marginal areas with poor fertility and limited water which exposes them to even greater degrees of stress. In the past two decades, production of food legumes has declined in most of the developing countries while at the same time it has expanded greatly in Canada, Australia, and most notably in Turkey.
tropical Grain Legume bulletin No. 35
Author: International Grain Legume Information CentrePublisher: IITA
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Linking Research and Marketing Opportunities for Pulses in the 21st Century
Author: R. KnightPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401143854
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Proceedings of the Third International Food Legumes Research Conference
Food Legume Improvement and Development
Author: Geoffrey HawtinPublisher: [Washington] : International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Biology and Breeding of Food Legumes
Author: Aditya PratapPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9781845937812
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Food legumes are important constituents of the human diet and animal feed where they are crucial to a balanced diet, supplying high quality proteins. These crops also play an important role in low-input agricultural production systems by fixing atmospheric nitrogen. Despite systematic and continuous breeding efforts through conventional methods, substantial genetic gains have not been achieved. With the rise in demand for food legumes/pulses and increased market value of these crops, research has focused on increasing production and improving the quality of pulses for both edible and industria.
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