Moha Ferrahi

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique | INRA Morocco · Department of Genetics and Biotechnology

Drought stress is a key factor affecting Morocco’s agricultural productivity. In order to adapt to climate change, it is crucial to select new genotypes which may be slightly but not significantly less efficient. Durum wheat (Tri�ticum durum Desf.) is one of the most important and cereal crops that are impacted by drought. The objective of this res...

Wheat occupies a special role in global food security since, in addition to providing 20% of our carbohydrates and protein, almost 25% of the global production is traded internationally. The importance of wheat for food security was recognised by the Chief Agricultural Scientists of the G20 group of countries when they endorsed the establishment of...

The root lesion nematodes Pratylenchus thornei cause high yield losses in rainfed wheat fields in Morocco, as well as worldwide. Growing resistant varieties is one of the most effective methods for controlling nematodes. Therefore, a collection of 69 wheat lines (Triticum aestivum and T. durum), provided by CRRA-Meknes, Morocco and ICARDA, were scr...

Leaf and stripe rusts are severe foliar diseases of bread wheat. Recently, chromosomes 5Mg from the related species Aegilops geniculatathat confers resistance to both leaf and stripe rust and 5Ut from Ae. triuncialis conferring resistance to leaf rust have been transferred to bread wheat in the form of disomic DS5Mg(5D) and DS5Ut(5A) chromosome sub...