Irrigation accounts for 70% of global water use by humans and 33–40% of global food production comes from irrigated croplands. Accurate and timely information related to global irrigation is therefore needed to manage increasingly scarce water resources and to improve food security in the face of yield gaps, climate change and extreme events such as droughts, floods, and heat waves. Unfortunate...

Spores of both Puccinia recondita f. sp. tritici and P. striiformis (brown rust and yellow rust of wheat) are thought to be primarily dispersed by wind. The results of experiments, using a rain simulator with uniform drop sizes (2.5, 3.4, 4.2 or 4.9 mm), on the effect of rain on dispersal of brown (leaf) rust and yellow (stripe) rust spores are reported. Experiments on both pathogens were done ...

15 Rice cleaning I 16 Wheat grinding Strong on left 28th, 29th; windy 30th. High wind 6th, 10th, llth; calm 12th. Calm weather. Ditto. Nov. 29th windy ; 30tli calm. Windy two days previously. Calm after wind on llth, 12tli Feb. Windy on 14th, 15th, 16th. 2nd Mar. windy; 3rd fine; 4th windy. Ditto. May 4th?6th very windy. May 24th, 25th windy. May 2dth, windy. June 3rd, 4th sultry ; June 5th, hi...

While maintained under all combinations of three temperatures and two RH, fifth instar larvae of the Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella were fed wheat treated with spores and crystals of Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki. Larvae that had fed on wheat with the bacterial preparation contained higher concentrations of nodules in their haemocoel than did larvae fed on wheat without ba...

multi-environment trials play a significant role in selecting the best cultivars to be used at different locations. the objective of this study was to identify grain and forage yields stability of grass pea advanced lines across different locations. the 14 advanced lines of grass pea, developed by the international center for agricultural research in dry areas (icarda), were tested at three dif...