| Type | International Research Institute |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1975[1] |
| Location | Tel Hadya, Aleppo, Syria[1] |
| Area served | Central Asia, Western Asia and North Africa.[2] |
| Focus | Improving livelihoods of resource-poor in dry areas.[2] |
| Method | Agricultural Research |
| Website | ICARDA website |
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ( or ICARDA ) is an international research center focused on for Agricultural Research located at Tel Hadya near Aleppo in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Is one of 15 research centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The center was established in 1975 with the mission to contribute to the improvement of livelihoods of the poor people in dry areas by enhancing food security and alleviating poverty through research and partnerships including training to achieve sustainable increases in agricultural productivity, nutritional quality of food and income while preserving and enhancing the environment and local natural resources in the developing world.
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serves the developing world with various projects and programs focused on developments in agriculture, such as :
ICARDA's research on the sources of rust resistance in wheat is a key part of the fight against the rust fungus.
The wheat rust is a pathogen capable/able to mutate rapidly to form new strains to overcome resistance genes of bred in wheat . Researchers have found genes for resistance and the ratio test is made at the eighth International Conference on grain , who stressed the importance of landraces, primitive and wild Triticum species as sources of seedling and adult plant resistance to rust of wheat. The yellow rust fungus is a growing problem in the region Cwana and not easy to find new sources of resistance to yellow rust in wheat genotypes were tested advanced . Are local varieties, and species of wild and primitive wheat to accelerate the introduction of these resistance genes is the search for molecular markers associated with resistance genes of the plant. [3].
Central and West Asia and North Africa are the main centers and key area of epidemiology. These areas have a wide availability of genetic diversity, but also wheat, livestock and bread. ICARDA, based his research solely on the loss of productivity due to excess heat stress.
Heat stress is a major abiotic stresses causing the loss of productivity in Central and West Asia and North America region. In these regions, grain and bread is the staple food, with per capita consumption of 200 kg per year. Heat stress during heading and grain filling is very common in this region, mainly due to the shortening of the stages of development and size of the facilities. The results of heat stress in early senescence of leaves and negative physiological and biochemical changes.
The methodology ICARDA and progress in breeding for cultivars of wheat with increased tolerance to temperature stress, which is the source of the pathogen [4].