the review focuses on recent progress in the breeding of small grain cereals (barley, wheat, oats) for resistance to the barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDv). first, the symptomatology of barley yellow dwarf (BYD) disease is briefly described and the genome of BYDv, its serotypes and mechanisms of its replication and translation in host plants are characterized. great attention is paid to the descr...

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Crop cultivar identification is fundamental for agricultural research, industry and policies. This paper investigates the feasibility of using visible/near infrared hyperspectral data collected with a miniaturized NIR spectrometer to identify cultivars of barley, chickpea and sorghum in the context of Ethiopia. A total of 2650 grains of barley, chickpea and sorghum cultivars were scanned using ...