September 2001
Volume 2 (2)

Welcome to the second volume of the revived Lathyrus Lathyrism Newsletter. Below are the current articles. All these articles are in pdf format. This means you will need the FREE Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your computer. You can download Acrobat by clicking here. Volume 3(1) will be available in April/May 2002.

Articles in this edition
	Editor's Comment Colin Hanbury, Australia (Page 54)
	Opinion and Future Directions "Role of ICARDA in improving the nutritional quality and yield potential of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.), for subsistence farmers in dry areas" - Ali M. Abd El Moneim, B. Van Dorrestein, M. Baum, J. Ryan, G. Bejiga -Syria and Ethiopia (Pages 55-58) "A real life drama in a neurolathyritic family" - Haileyesus Getahun - Ethiopia (Pages 59-61)
	Plant Genetic Resources, Evaluation and Breeding "Comparative genetic diversity studies in the genus Lathyrus using RFLP and RAPD markers" - N. Chtourou-Ghorbel, B. Lauga, D. Combes, M. Marrakchi -Tunisia (Pages 62-68) "Grain quality in accessions of Lathyrus spp." - E. Granati, V. Bisignano, D. Chiaretti, G.B. Polignano, P. Crinò -Italy (Pages 69-71) "Biology of over-wintering of perennial root nodules and seed development in beach pea (Lathyrus maritimus L.)" - C. Gurusamy, A. K. Bal -Canada (Pages 72-73) "Genetic mapping of isozyme loci in Lathyrus sativus L." - José Francisco Gutiérrez, Francisca Vaquero, Francisco Javier Vences -Spain (Pages 74-78) "Variability, heritability and correlation studies in grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.)" - Sushil Kumar, D.K. Dubey -India (Pages 79-81) "Field evaluation of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) germplasm for its toxicity in the northwestern hills of India"- Vedna Kumari -India (Pages 82-84) "Creative breeding of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) in Poland" - Marian Milczak, Marian Pedzinski, Halina Mnichowska, Krystyna Szwed-Urbas, Wojciech Rybinski -Poland (Pages 85-88) "Germplasm characterisation of some Lathyrus species native to Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Brazil)" - Maria Teresa Schifino-Wittmann -Brazil (Pages 89-90) "Factor analysis of components of yield in grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.)" - Wuletaw Tadesse, Endashaw Bekele -Ethiopia (Pages 91-93)
	Agronomy "Herbage production and economics of rainfed winter "paira" grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) under residual effects of tillage and nitrogen, applied to mesta (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) in the rainy season." - N. R. Das, S. Mitramajumdar, D. Panda -India (Page 94) "Effect of phosphate fertiliser on Lathyrus sativus in soils with high phosphorus retention capacity" - A. Montenegro, M. Mera, N. Espinoza, L. Barrientos, N. Gaete -Chile (Pages 95-98) "Seed and seedling vigour of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) in relation to moisture stress for better performance under relay cropping with paddy rice." - R.N. Sharma, R.L. Pandey -India (Pages 99-100)
	Animal Feeding "Antinutritional factors in seeds of Lathyrus sativus cultivated in Poland" - E. R. Grela, T. Studzinski, J. Matras -Poland. (Pages 101-104)
	Entire Edition Download the entire newsletter Vol. 2(2) in one go. Be aware that the size of this one PDF file is 754 KB - (Pages 54-106)
	Recent Publications USEFUL LINKS Lists of Lathyrus publications "Listing of Useful Plants of the World", using Biological Abstracts database (1988-2000) Lathyrus sativus Lathyrus cicera Lathyrus ochrus Other Lathyrus species Links to Chemistry in Africa and the related site Analytical Chemistry Web Resources
	Items of Interest