Substantial yield losses and poor seed quality are frequently associated with Ascochyta blight infection of lentil caused by Ascochyta lentis. Recently reported changes in aggressiveness of A. lentis have led to decreased resistance within cultivars, such as Northfield and Nipper in Australia. Furthermore, the narrow genetic base of the current breeding program remains a risk for further select...

available genetic variation for ascochyta blight resistance in genus cicer has prompted interest in the development and use of autumn sown resistant chickpea cultivars. a thorough understanding of the mode of inheritance of resistance to ascochyta blight in chickpea would assist the breeding efforts. in order to determine the number of genes, as well as to evaluate heritability and action of ge...

With an explosive growth rate, especially in developing countries, the world population of 7.2 billion is expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. There is a need to produce about 70% more food to feed this predicted population. Legumes form important constituents of a vegetarian diet and are rich sources of dietary protein (Duranti and Gius, 1997). Legumes comprise the third largest family of fl...