Faba beans are highly nutritious because of their high protein content: they are a good
source of mineral nutrients, vitamins, and numerous bioactive compounds. Equally important …

Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major
diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds …

Faba bean (Vicia faba) is a grain legume crop widely cultivated in temperate areas for food
and feed. Its productivity can be constrained by numerous diseases and pests that can be …

Faba bean is a cool-season grain legume crop, which is grown worldwide for food and feed.
Despite a decrease in area under faba bean in the past, the interest in growing faba bean is …

The faba bean (Vicia faba) is a temperate grain legume, that is regaining interest due to the
high demand for food and feed uses and the environmental services provided. The parasitic …

The obligate root parasitic Orobanchaceae plants Striga, Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.
parasitize economically important crops, vegetables and oil plants. They are the most …

Oat crop is not particularly well adapted to hot and dry weather, as shown by a 3-fold yield
reduction in Mediterranean compared to Northern regions. As a consequence, there is a …

The broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche) are parasitic plants that have modified
biology to feed on other plants, completely losing autotrophic capability. Some broomrape …

The main objective of this study was to investigate the performance of faba bean landraces
originating from different regions of Greece under both organic and conventional farming …

Chocolate spot and heat stress devastatingly impact the production of faba bean, particularly
under prevailing climatic changes and rising drastic environmental conditions. Hence, the …