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Part of the book series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture (PSBA, volume 19)
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The goal of the Second International Food Legume Research Conference held in Cairo, Egypt was to build on the success of the first conference held nearly 6 years earlier at Spokane, Washington, USA. It was at that first conference where the decision was made to hold the second Conference in Egypt and so near the ancestral home of these food legume crops. It has been a long held view that the cool season food legumes had their origin in the Mediterranean basin and the Near-east arc, and there is little doubt that food legumes were a staple food of the ancient Egyptian civilization. The cool season food legumes have the reputation for producing at least some yield under adverse conditions of poor fertility and limited moisture, i. e. , in circumstances where other crops are likely to fail completely. Yields of cool season food legumes are particularly poor in those regions where they are most important to local populations. The influx of more profitable crops such as wheat, maize, and soybeans have gradually relegated the food legumes to marginal areas with poor fertility and limited water which exposes them to even greater degrees of stress. In the past two decades, production of food legumes has declined in most of the developing countries while at the same time it has expanded greatly in Canada, Australia, and most notably in Turkey.
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Table of contents (67 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Keynote address
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Processing and animal feeds
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Climate change and biotic and abiotic stresses
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Host plant resistance to manage biotic stress
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Expanding the Production and Use of Cool Season Food Legumes
Book Subtitle: A global perspective of peristent constraints and of opportunities and strategies for further increasing the productivity and use of pea, lentil, faba bean, chickpea and grasspea in different farming systems
Editors: F. J. Muehlbauer, W. J. Kaiser
Series Title: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0798-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2535-2Published: 31 March 1994
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4343-4Published: 16 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0798-3Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-1949
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 991
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology, Ecology