Asghar Ali- PhD
- Legume Agronomist at AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center-Pakistan
Asghar Ali
- PhD
- Legume Agronomist at AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center-Pakistan
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Introduction
Thirty years' practical experience of lentil, vetches and mungbean breeding and agronomy for stressful environments. Led the team of scientists for genetic improvement, & agronomy of mungbean, lentil, chickpea & mashbean.
Currently working to introduce mungbean in rice-wheat cropping system as a catch crop, double cropping in single-cropped rainfed Pothwar region and inter-cropping with sugarcane to increase the income of farmer and improve the soil health & nutrient status.
Current institution
AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center-Pakistan
Current position
- Legume Agronomist
Additional affiliations
April 2014 - present
Position
- National Coordinator/Team Leader (Pulses)
Description
- Currently working as Legume Agronomist at AVRDC Field Office, Sargodha.
April 2014 - present
AVRDC-Pakistan
Position
- Legume agronomist
Description
- Based in Sargodha Field Office and responsible for improving mungbean production throughout Pakistan
Education
August 1990 - September 1994
Publications
Publications (54)
Genetic diversity of 113 desi chickpea genotypes was studied through descriptive, principal component and cluster analysis. High variances were observed for days to flowering, maturity, plant height, pods plant -1 , biological yield and harvest index. These traits also showed positive significant correlation with yield which was confirmed through p...
To identify sources of resistance against mungbean yellow mosaic (begomo) virus (MYMV), 64 lines of mungbean and 21 of mashbean were evaluated under field conditions. Out of 64 mungbean lines, 6 were found as resistant (R) and 35 moderately resistant (MR). Sixteen accessions were graded as susceptible (S) whereas 7 were found highly susceptible (HS...
The weeds in lentil are one of the major constraints in obtaining maximum yield. The manual weed control is simply not feasible because it is time consuming and costly. The chemical weed control is the effective method of weed management. A field study was conducted to evaluate pre and post-emergence herbicides for weed control in lentil. The exper...
Pulses program NARC has developed and disseminated lentil variety Markaz-09 which is the highest yielding
variety in the country but diffusion and adoption status of the variety is yet unknown. The present study was
undertaken among 70 lentil farmers from pulses farming districts Attock, Chakwal, Jehlum and Rawalpindi in 2013.
The aim of the study...
The present study was aimed to identify the most promising high yielding lentil genotype for a wide range of environments of Pakistan using 8 stability measures. The experiment consisted of 12 lentil genotypes grown at 11 locations falling in different agro-ecological zones of Pakistan for 2 years during 2006/07 and 2007/08 under national uniform y...
Hydrocyanic acid is a strong poison. The toxicity of hydrocyanic acid is due to its great heavy metal affinity leading to cytotoxic hypoxia. At low concentration, it is bound to other compounds. It is also present in many foods and species. Cyanogenic glucosides occur naturally in many species of plants including Sudan grass. Cyanogenesis is the bi...
Heritability analysis for cold tolerance in lentil was conducted using parental, F2 and F3 populations at two locations in Balochistan, Pakistan and one controlled environment in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Populations of parental and F2 families were grown over 2 years (1991-92 and 1992-93) at Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. In 1992-93, parental a...
Lentil blight, rust and viral diseases, particularly pea seed-borne mosaic virus (PSbMV) are serious threat to lentil production in Pakistan. Multiple disease resistance in lentil is not available in the country. During 1998-99, 590 local lentil germplasm accessions were evaluated under field conditions to identify multiple sources of resistance ag...
Study was conducted In vivo to evaluate the antagonistic effects of two microorganisms against collar rot disease of chickpea caused by the fungus Sclerotium rolfsii. The effect of microbial amendments viz., Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) and root nodulating bacteria Rhizobium sp., on the collar rot disease in Cicer was studied individually...
This study was conducted to assess the variation among lentil germplasm for their reaction to natural virus infection and to identify sources of resistance against viruses infecting lentil. Based on field observations and ELISA, a great variation was observed among lentil genotypes for their reaction to natural virus infection. Lentil was infected...
To evaluate the exotic lentil germplasm for the economically important traits and correlate them to select the genotypes for the targeted breeding programme, fifty-nine exotic lentil genotypes were used in the study. The exotic genotype ILL 9864 with the yield of 1544 kg ha-1 was comparable with the local check (Masoor-93) that gave 1727 kg ha-1 se...
Sixty-four lentil genotypes obtained from International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria were evaluated against pea seed-borne mosaic virus (PSbMV). There was a wide range of variability in disease reaction among the genotypes. Most of the genotypes were found tolerant to this disease. Out of 64 lines, 21 were found res...
A cDNA for a putative 42 kD spermidine synthase (OsSPDS2) was cloned from rice. The deduced OsSPDS2 sequence showed highest similarity with Arabidopsis AtSPDS3. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that OsSPDS2 and AtSPDS3 form a distinctive subclass in the spermidine synthase family in plants. OsSPDS2 mRNA accumulated in roots during long term exposure...
Appropriate ratio of rice bean and blue panic were studied to maximize forage yield and to assess crude protein content. There were five planting ratios consisted of sole rice bean legume, 75 % rice bean and 25% blue panic, 50% rice bean and 50% blue panic, 25 % rice bean and 75% blue panic and 100% blue panic grass. The experiment was conducted wi...
To determine forage yield and crude protein (CP) content in four legume species viz. cowpea, lablab bean, rice bean and sesbania along with a non-leguminous reference crop of sorghum, a study was carried out . The highest dry weight of 4 t ha<SUP>-1</SUP> was obtained from sesbania and sorghum and the lowest dry weight of 2 t ha<SUP>-1</SUP> from c...
Yield and forage quality was estimated for buffel grass, blue panic grass, love grass, napier grass and mott grass was estimated. Mott grass out-yielded all other grasses in terms of plant height (248 cm), number of tillers per plant (96), dry matter yield (22 t )ha <SUP>-1</SUP> while love grass was least productive with plant height of 121 cm, dr...
The present project was aimed to determine the correlation coefficients among different economically important traits using three varieties of Sorghum bicolor, and to ascertain the best combinations of characters to provide an ease to the breeders for improving those characters to improve biomass and yield. The sorghum varieties were PARC SS-1, PAR...
To determine the correlation coefficients for different economically important traits using three warm-season forage legume species of cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.), lablab bean ( Lablab purpureus L.) and rice bean ( Vigna umbellata Thunb.), the observations were recorded on plant height, number of branches/plant, number of pods/peduncle,...
Seasonal change in cold hardiness has frequently been associated with metabolic induction of osmolytes that may play a role in acclimation to low temperatures in cool season crop plants. The present research was aimed to examine the association of common endogenous sugars with cold hardiness in acclimated and non-acclimated plants of winter-hardy a...
Highest forage yield, protein yield and carrying capacity was recorded in case of elephant followed by mott grass, blue panic grass and sesbania,. Crude protein content was highest sesbania, followed by mott grass, elephant grass and blue panic grass. It was concluded that rangeland can be improved by reseeding with improved varieties of forage gra...
This study describes the development of a highly repeatable cold screening procedure for lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) using controlled conditions which involve first, acclimation of the plants at the vegetative stage in a growth chamber and second, freeze testing in a freeze chamber. The seeds were first germinated in Petri dishes and then plante...
To determine association between any two of the three traits of cold tolerance, growth habit and anthocyanin pigment in lentil ( Lens culinaris Medikus ), F<sub>2</sub> populations were studied for two years (1991/92 and 1992/93) at Quetta and F<sub>3</sub> foe one year (1992/93) at two different field sites, Quetta and Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan...
To provide an alternative feed source for animals in winter, the study was conducted to develop a suitable, annually sown, cool season, forage legume variety for the arid uplands (>1000m altitude) of Balochistan. Out of 36 experiments, Kohak-96 significantly (P less than 0.05) out-performed the check in 29 and 23 experiments in TDM (total dry matte...
The objective of this study was to develop a dual-season high yielding, bold-seeded lentil variety with cold, drought and disease resistance to replace the local ultra small-seeded variety in the arid highlands (�1000m altitude) of Balochistan which are equal to 25 per cent of the total land area of Pakistan. SHIRAZ-96 significantly (P0.05) in seed...
Pathogenicity of twenty isolates of Ascochyta lentis was studied using seven genotypes of lentil i.e Matilda, Indian head, Precoz, Cobber, Digger, North field and Masoor-93 under greenhouse conditions. A distinctive pathogenic variation was observed on the basis of disease reaction. The isolates were divided into five distinct pathotype groups. All...
To investigate the introduction of vetch/barley forage mixtures with a range of harvesting treatments in the winter season of Mediterranean-type environments, studies were carried out during 1994–97 at the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, which has an annual rainfall of around 1000 mm, and at a much drier site at the Arid Zo...
The effects of a range of harvesting times and vetch/barley mixture ratios on forage quality were investigated in Mediterranean-type environments at the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, which has an annual rainfall of around 1000 mm, and at a much drier site at the Arid Zone Research Centre (AZRC) at Quetta in Pakistan, duri...
The residual effects of winter-sown forage mixtures grown in the northern rainfed parts of Punjab province and south-eastern North West Frontier Province in Pakistan were examined. Studies were carried out during 1994–97 primarily at the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, which has an annual rainfall of around 1000 mm and, sec...
Experiments to evaluate the suitability of lentil lines using an innovative dual-season approach for improved and reliable production under the harsh environmental conditions of the highlands of west Asia were conducted in Balochistan for 3 years (1986/87, 1987/88 and 1988/89) by the Arid Zone Research Institute. Two ICARDA-bred lines, ILL5865 and...
In the very large areas of arid highlands in West Asia, of which land over 1000 m in Balochistan is typical, as a result of rapidly increasing numbers of small ruminants and subsequent overgrazing of natural rangelands, severe shortages in animal feed are being experienced. To address this problem the And Zone Research Institute (AZRI) have been ev...
Sixty-four lentil genotypes obtained from International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria were evaluated against pea seed-borne mosaic virus (PSbMV). There was a wide range of variability in disease reaction among the genotypes. Most of the genotypes were found tolerant to this disease. Out of 64 lines, 21 were found res...
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