Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

I. Overview of Legume SNF Research Achievements in IARCs: Harnessing the Potentials of BNF for Poor Farmers: Technological, Policy and Institutional Constraints and Research Needs: B. Shiferaw, M.C.S. Bantilan and R. Serraj; Increasing the Role of Legumes in Smallholder Farming Systems-The Future Challenge: S. Twomlow; Biotechnology-based Contributions to Enhancing Legume Productivity in Resource-poor Areas: J.H. Crouch, H.K. Buhariwalla, M. Blair, E. Mace, J. Balaji and R. Serraj; Improvement of Legume Productivity and Role of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Cropping Systems: Overcoming the Physiological and Agronomic Limitations: R. Serraj, J. Adu-Gyamfi, O.P. Rupela and J.J. Drevon; Improved Livelihoods from Legumes-A Review of BNF Research at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas: R.S. Malhotra, T. Blake, A.M. Abd. El-Moneim, W. Erskine, A. Sarker, M.C. Saxena, R. Thomas and F.A. Afandi; Biological Nitrogen Fixation: A Key Input for Integrated Soil Fertility Management in the Tropics: CIAT-TSBFI Working Group on BNF; The Ability to Fix N is not the Only Key to Delivery of the Benefits of BNF to Farmers: Experience of IITA in the Savannas of Africa: R.J. Carsky, N. Sanginga, S. Schulz, B. Douthwaite, V.M. Manyong, J. Diels, B. Vanlauwe and J.D.H. Keatinge; Enhancement of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Grain Legumes: Selected Results from the FAO/IAEA Programme: G. Hardarson; Vegetable Legumes-A Source of Increased Productivity, Improved Soil Fertility and Nutritional Health: J. Friedrichsen?II. Future Prospects of Advanced Research on SNF in ARIs: The Importance of Biological Nitrogen Fixation by Trees in Agroforestry: A. Galiana, J.P. Bouillet and F. Ganry; Architecture and Maps of the Chickpea Genome: A Basis for Understanding Plant-Rhizobium Interactions: P. Winter, C. Staginnus, B. Huettel, R. Jungmann, T. Pfaff, A-M. Benko-Iseppon, S. Rakshit, S. Pinkert, M. Baum and G. Kahl; Fabamed Interdisciplinary Strategy to Improve Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation of Legumes in the Mediterranean Basin: J.J. Drevon, C. Abdelly, N. Amarger, E.A. Aouani, J. Aurag, M. Jebara, H. Gherbi, C. Lluch, H. Payre, O. Schump, B. Sifi and M. Trabels?III. Status of Legumes and SNF in South Asia and Africa: Exploring the Biological Potential of Indigenous African Legumes for Developing Agri-technologies and SMMEs to Alleviate Poverty in Rural Communities: F.D. Dakora and G.M. Mvalo; Nitrogen Fixation in the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)-A Multilocational Inoculation Trial in Senegal: N.F.D. Guene, A. Diouf and M. Gueye; Design, Development and Promotion of Soybean BNF Technology in Zimbabwe: Closing the Loop: S. Mpepereki and I. Pompi; Current Status of Food Legume Production and Use of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Technology in Ethiopia: Geletu Bejiga; Status, Constraints and Perspectives of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Technology in Egypt: Y.G. Yann; Institutional Learning: From BNF Technologies to BNF Innovation Systems: R.S. Raina, A.J. Hall and R.V. Sulaiman; Rhizobium Inoculation of Leguminous Oilseeds-Results of On-Farm and Farmers' Field Demonstrations in the ICAR Coordinated Project on BNF: D.L.N. Rao, T. Natarajan, K. Ilamurugu, R.S. Raut and A.K. Rawat; The Role of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Increasing Crop Production and Soil Fertility in Vietnam: P.V. Toan and H.D. Tuan; Status of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Research in the Philippines: J.E. Eusebio; Effect of Fertilizers on Nodulation and Growth of Samanea saman Merr in Presence of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi at Nursery Level: M.S. Rahman, M.A.U. Mridha, S.M.S. Huda, M.M. Haque and S.M.S. Haque?IV. The CP Pre-Proposal: Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Increased Crop Productivity, Enhanced Human Health and Sustained Soil Fertility BNF Challenge Program Pre-Proposal: R. Serraj, L. Hein, J.J. Drevon and K.E. Giller