World Crops: Cool Season Food Legumes: A Global Perspective of the Problems and Prospects for Crop Improvement in Pea, Lentil, Faba Bean and Chickpea (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

International programmes.- Food legume research sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (A.I.D.).- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) International Food Legume Development Programme.- International Development Research Centre (IDRC) support for research on cool season food legume crops in Asia and North Africa.- Research on cool season food legumes at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).- Research on food legumes at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), with special reference to chickpea.- Activities of the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR).- Genetic resources.- Genetic basis for pulse crop improvement: collection, preservation and genetic variation in relation to needed traits.- Current status of cool season food legume crop improvement: an assessment of critical needs.- Breeding cool season food legumes for improved performance in stress environments.- Breeding for disease resistance in pulse crops.- Screening and breeding for insect resistance in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea.- Breeding for morphological traits.- Workshop: Integration of information on plant diversity.- Cropping systems.- Factors which limit the productivity of cool season food legumes in Turkey.- Nitrogen fixation and productivity of chickpea in India.- Factors which limit production of pea in Burundi.- Improvement of nitrogen fixation and yield of lentil and chickpea crops in Turkey.- Potential for winter chickpea in Morocco.- Impact of conservation tillage on grain legume crops and their associated pests.- Nitrogen fixation and yield of faba bean, lentil and chickpea in response to selected agricultural practices in Egypt.- Phosphorus deficiency in the semi-arid tropics and implications for grain legume production.- Factors which limit the productivity of cool season food legumes in Nepal.- Factors which limit cool season food legume productivity in Bangladesh.- Management and tillage.- Managing systems for increasing productivity of pulses in dryland agriculture.- Stand establishment in pulse crops.- Water requirements and the irrigation management of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea crops.- Soil fertility requirements of pea, lentil, chickpea and faba bean.- Strategies for improving soil and water management research and networking in semi-arid regions of developing countries.- Harvesting and storage.- Harvesting and storage factors that affect seed quality in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea.- Seed storage practices and problems for cool season food legumes.- Methods of harvesting pulse crops.- Identification, significance and transmission of seed borne pathogens.- Insect depredation during storage.- Processing and utilization.- Seed quality and nutritional goals in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea breeding.- Utilization of food legumes in human nutrition.- Trends in product development and the processing of peas in the United Kingdom.- Future potential of pulses for use in animal feeds.- Quality screening and evaluation in pulse breeding.- Economics, marketing and policies.- Trends, situation and outlook for the world pulse economy.- Significance of government policies and programmes in international marketing of pulses worldwide.- Trends in supply and demand of pulses with special reference to chickpea.- Future trends in supply and demand of pea and lentil.- Biotic limitations.- Workshop: Seed pathogens of food legumes.- Pest, disease and weed problems in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea.- Weeds in food legumes: problems, effects and control.- Parasitic weeds on cool season food legumes.- Root rot and wilt diseases of food legumes.- Fungal and bacterial foliar diseases of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea.- Viruses and virus diseases of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea.- Integrated pest management.- Seedling vigour and susceptibility to diseases and pests.- Soil compaction and crop resid