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Foreword |
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Productivity and yield stability of lentil (Lens culinaris M.) in different production systems are often constrained by diseases, insect pests and several abiotic stress factors. A timely identification of the disorders caused by these factors is essential to reduce their adverse effects. The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) has a global mandate for the crop improvement research on lentil, and is devoting considerable effort to the genetic enhancement of the crop and to developing effective measures to minimize crop losses. This field guide has been developed to assist in the correct diagnosis and effective control of various pests, diseases and other factors that damage the lentil crop. It is hoped that it will be useful to all those who are interested in the improvement and production of lentil. |
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Nasrat R. Fadda |
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The authors are indebted to Dr. Willie Erskine, ICARDA lentil breeder, for reviewing the manuscript and for offering several useful suggestions. Thanks are also due to Ing. Enrique Penaloza H. of Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Temuco, Chile; Dr. Nicola Greco of the Istituto di Nematologia Agraria del CNR, Bari, Italy, and Prof Dr. Horst Marschner of the Institut der Pflanzern ahrung, Universitat Hohenheim, Germany for supplying several key photographs: symptoms of "maria negra" (Ing. Penaloza), root-knot nematode (Dr. Greco) and N, K and B deficiency (Prof Marschner). All other photographs in this Field Guide were made by the authors or obtained from the Photography Unit of the Communication, Documentation and Information Services of ICARDA. |
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