Crop Biodiversity

Leaflets, an important mechanism for creating awareness

March 21st, 2013 | Methodological Tips, Morocco, Publications

In Morocco, leaflets in french have been developed for passing on messages which include: Presenting the importance of diseases to inform farmers how to control them using  genetic diversity and other means. Showing farmers the importance of seed and its processing for better control of pest and diseases. Proposing to farmers different options of increasing [...]

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Using Barley diversity to control Net Blotch disease in Morocco

February 4th, 2013 | Morocco

Barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.) crop is important in Morocco for its important agronomic, livestock and socioeconomic roles. Net blotch, caused by Pyrenophora teres f. sp. Teres,  is one of the major diseases of barley. The severity of this disease is partly due to the cropping of vulnerable varieties.   A study to analyze the local [...]

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Could Faba Bean diversity be a promising control for Chocolate Spot disease in Morocco?

January 14th, 2013 | Morocco, News

The interaction between different Faba bean landraces and one specific fungus (Botrytis fabae Sard or chocolate spot) was studied to determine the resistance levels of the different varieties as an indication of the extent to which genetic diversity could be used to control the damage and spread of this disease. Chocolate spot is the most [...]

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Faba bean and barley local varietal diversity in the Taounate Region of Morocco

June 13th, 2012 | Morocco, News

By Belqadi Loubna; Department of Production, Protection and Vegetable Biotechnology, Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Morocco Faba bean is the major grain legume crop in Morocco, covering nearly half of the area annually planted to grain legumes. In the same way, the area covered by barley exceeds the other cereals (common, durum [...]

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Training Activity

January 12th, 2010 | Morocco

Training for local representatives of farmers’, NGO’s and extension services, but also for students and technicians associated with the project. These activities and others continue during the rest of the 2009 period and also during the coming season. Training depends heavily on concrete examples and demonstrations, and therefore on the season.

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Training in Morocco

January 12th, 2010 | Morocco

Training on how to conduct individual surveys. Data processing and analysis provided at a national level.

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