December 2003
Volume 3

Welcome to the third volume of the Lathyrus Lathyrism Newsletter. Below are the current articles. All these articles are in pdf format. You can download Acrobat by clicking here.

Articles in this edition
	Editor's Comment Colin Hanbury, Australia (Page 1)
	Opinion and Future Directions "Dr. Arthur Kessler (1903-2000)" - David Kessler (Pages 2-4)
	Plant Genetic Resources, Evaluation and Breeding "Experiences with Lathyrus latifolius in agriculture of high elevation zones of Central America" - Raul Alemán, Rinaldo Diaz Votto -Honduras (Pages 5-7) "Performance of Rhizobium strains isolated from Lathyrus sativus plants growing in southern Chile" - L. Barrientos, A. Badilla, M. Mera, A. Montenegro, N. Gaete, N. Espinoza -Chile (Pages 8-9) "Seasonal changes in abscisic acid concentration of perennial root nodules of beach pea (Lathyrus maritimus [L.] Bigel.)" - Gurusamy Chinnasamy, Arya Kumar Bal, David Bruce McKenzie -Canada (Pages 10-12) "New green manuring Lathyrus sativus variety AC Greenfix available in USA" - David Krause, Ila Krause -USA (Pages 13-14) "Genetic diversity among induced mutants of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.)" - Sushil Kumar, D.K. Dubey -India (Pages 15-17) "Review: A brief history of grasspea and its use in crop improvement" - Jennifer S. McCutchan -Australia (Pages 18-23) "Heritability of seed weight in an inbred population of large-seeded Lathyrus sativus" - M. Mera, A. Montenegro, N. Espinoza, N. Gaete, L. Barrientos -Chile (Pages 24-25) "Luanco-INIA, a large-seeded cultivar of Lathyrus sativus released in Chile" - M. Mera, J. Tay, A. France, A. Montenegro, N. Espinoza, N. Gaete -Chile (Pages 26) "Mutagenesis as a tool for improvement of traits in grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.)" - Wojciech Rybiñski -Poland (Pages 27-31) "Stability of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) varieties for ODAP content and grain yield in Ethiopia" - Wuletaw Tadesse -Ethiopia (Pages 32-34)
	Agronomy "Rainfed rice-based 3-crop systems with paira/utera crops in West Bengal, India" - N. R. Das -India (Page 35) "Productivity of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) under different levels of phosphorus and foliar spray of molybdenum" - R.K. Sarkar, B. Biswas, G.C. Malik -India (Pages 36-37)
	Animal Feeding "Effect of chickling vetch (Lathyrus sativus L.) or alfalfa (Medicago sativa) hay in gestating ewe diets"- C. Poland, T. Faller, L. Tisor -USA. (Pages 38-40) "Effect of antinutritional factors in khesari seeds (Lathyrus sativus) on the biological performance of chicks"- Archana Sharma, M. Kalia, S.R. Malhotra -India (Pages 41-43) "Lathyrus cicera as quality feed for laying hens"- Colin Hanbury, Bob Hughes -Australia (Pages 44-46)
	Chemistry and Analysis "A new amperometric ß-ODAP biosensor" - Negussie W. Beyene, Helmut Moderegger, Kurt Kalcher -Austria. (Pages 47-49)
	Entire Edition Download the entire newsletter Vol. 3 in one go. Be aware that the size of this one PDF file is very large (3.4 MB) - (Pages 1-50)
	Recent Publications USEFUL LINKS Lathyrus E-mail discussion group: follow the prompts under "Join this Group!" - you will be able to keep up to date with what is happening world-wide in Lathyrus related ares and ask questions. *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