World crops: Cool season food legumes

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 residue management effects on root diseases of annual food legumes.- Interactions of tillage and soil management practices on the biological control of diseases and pests.- Rhizobium and N2 fixation.- Competition for legume nodule occupancy: a down-to-earth limitation on nitrogen fixation.- Inter-strain competition for rhizosphere colonization and nodule occupancy in the pea, lentil and chickpea/Rhizobium symbioses.- Improving symbiotic nitrogen fixation through the genetic manipulation of Rhizobium and legume host plants.- Rhizosphere interactions with special reference to vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae.- 15N addition methods for assessing N2 fixation under field conditions.- Role of inoculants in improving nitrogen fixation in legumes.- Workshop: Use of 15N in field experiments involving measurement of biologically fixed nitrogen.- Carbon and nitrogen economy of nodulated legumes.- Partitioning of carbon and nitrogen in the nodulated grain legume: principles, processes and regulation.- Oxygen supply to nodules as a limiting factor in symbiotic nitrogen fixation.- The importance of hydrogen recycling in nitrogen fixation by legumes.- Translocation and utilization of nitrogen by pulses.- Environmental effects on nitrogen fixation.- Environmental stress.- Factors which affect water use efficiency in rainfed production of food legumes, and their measurement.- Winterhardiness in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea.- High temperature stress.- Root growth of chickpea, faba bean, lentil and pea and effects of water and salt stresses.- Nutrient requirements of pulses.- Physiology.- Critical physiological traits in pulse crops.- Seed and seedling vigour.- Photo-thermal regulation of flowering in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea.- Senescence in pulse crops.- Role of physiology in pulse crop improvement: a plant breeding perspective.- Breeding and biotechnology.- Population improvement in pulse crops: an assessment of methods and techniques.- Exploitation of wild relatives of the food legumes.- Applications of isozyme analysis in pulse crops.- Applications of molecular genetics to crop improvement.- Selecting and breeding grain legumes for enhanced nitrogen fixation.- Future breeding strategies for pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea.- Genetic improvement of food legumes in developing countries by mutation induction.- Regional reports.- Cool season food legumes in South and Central America.- Production of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea in North America.- Production of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea in Europe.- Production of cool season food legumes in West Asia and North Africa.- Production of chickpea, lentil, pea and faba bean in South-East Asia.- Cool season food legumes in East Africa.- Production practices and economic importance of pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea in New Zealand and Australia.- Production of faba bean and pea in China.- Retrospect and prospect.- A personal review of the International Food Legume Research Conference.- The International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC): Retrospect and prospect.- Index of Authors.