World crops : cool season food legumes : a global perspective of the problems and prospects for crop improvement in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea

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.