
Theme
1. Crop Germplasm Enhancement
This theme includes six projects, each developed around a particular crop
or group of crops. The overall goal of the projects is to steadily increase
yield and stability through genetic improvement and water-use efficiency,
with special emphasis on less favored environments and low external-input
systems. The strategy is to produce cultivars with stable year-to-year yield
adapted to the environments in which they will be grown. The projects are
multidisciplinary, with research targeted to specific dry-area farming systems.
As such, they integrate genetic improvement with production systems, resource
management, and socioeconomic and policy considerations.
The following projects
are in operation under this theme:
Project 1.1. Barley
Germplasm Improvement for Increased Productivity and Yield 
Stability
Stability, and Grain Quality in West Asia and North Africa
Yield Stability, and Grain Quality in West Asia and North Africa
Increased Yield and Yield Stability in Highlands and Cold  Winter&
Areas of Central and West Asia and North Africa
Improvement for Increased Systems Productivity
and Systems Productivity in Dry Areas
Project 1.2. Durum Wheat Germplasm Improvement for Increased Productivity,
Yield
Project 1.3. Spring Bread Wheat Germplasm Improvement for Increased Productivity,
Project 1.4. Winter and Facultative Bread Wheat Germplasm Improvement
for
Project 1.5. Food Legume (Lentil, Kabuli Chickpea, and Faba Bean)
Germplasm
Project 1.6. Forage Legume Germplasm Improvement for Increased
Feed Production
