Cereal improvement program : annual report 1988

This report documents in technical detail ICARDA"s research on these crops, as well as its efforts to breed improved varieties for the high elevation areas which comprise 40% of the total land area of West Asia and North Africa. Research in cereal physiology/agronomy, pathology, entomology, grain quality, applied biotechnology, and the wild relatives of wheat is similarly documented. Also described are ICARDA"s efforts to conduct collaborative research with national agricultural research systems (NARS) and with other research centers, distribute improved barley and wheat germplasm to and among NARS, and undertake related training and publications activities. Of major importance for the Cereal Improvement Program, as well as for ICARDA as a whole, was the second External Programme Review, whose principal recommendation resulted in a new agreement with CIMMYT to collaborate in cereal improvement in the West Asia and North Africa region.