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LARI-LEB

Tal Amara

Plant Breeding

About

Plant breeding department has a wide expertise in rusts epidemiology, variety release and has collaborated with many international centers like ICARDA, CIMMYT, BGRI in cereal field.

Staff

  • Dr. Rola El Amil - Head of Department (ramil@lari.gov.lb)
  • Mr. Hani Hellani (Technician)
  • Mr. Michel Baaklini (Worker)

Publications

  • *R. EL Amil, C. de Vallavieille-Pope , M. Leconte, M.S. Hovmøller , K. Nazari , 2018. Summary on the pathogenic variability of wheat rusts in Lebanon over the period 2009-2017. Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Technical Workshop. Poster Abstract, 14-17 April 2018, Marrakech Morocco.
  • *R. El Amil, J.A. Shykoff, M. Leconte, M.S. Hovmøller, K. Nazari, and C. de Vallavieille-Pope . Effect of the temperature on aggressiveness components, infection efficiency and latency period, on Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in the Middle East (In press).
  • *R. El Amil, M. Leconte, C. de Vallavieille-Pope¸ M. S. Hovmller, K. Nazari. Resistance gene diversity for stripe rust in wheat elite lines, commercial varieties and landraces from Lebanon and Syria. Characterization of seedling yellow rust resistance in wheat commercial  cultivars, landraces and elite genotypes from Syria and Lebanon (Submitted to Phytopathologia Mediterranea).
  • *R. El Amil, S. Ali, B. Bahri, M. Leconte, C. de Vallavieille-Pope, K. Nazari. High pathotype diversity in a clonal population of the pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici responsible of wheat yellow rust in Lebanon and Syria (Submitted to Plant Pathology).
  • *R. El Amil, M. Leconte, S. Ali,  M. S. Hovmøller, A. Yahyaoui, C. Pope de
  • Vallavieille, K. Nazari, 2014. Incursion of a new aggressive Puccinia striiformis
  • f.sp. tritici race in Syria and Lebanon in 2010-2011. 10es Rencontres de Phytopathologie-Mycologie de la Société Française de Phytopathologie (SFP), Jan 2014, Aussois, France, p. 68.
  • *R. El Amil, M. Leconte M. Hovmøller, J. Shykoff, K. Nazari, C. de Vallavieille-Pope, 2014. Effect of the temperature on aggressiveness components, infection efficiency and latency period, on Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in the Middle East. 2nd International Wheat Stripe Rust Symposium, Izmir, Turkey, 28 April - 1 May 2014.
  • *R. El Amil, M. Leconte, C. de Vallavieille-Pope¸ M. S. Hovmøller, O. Abdalla, K. Nazari, 2013. Characterization of seedling yellow rust resistance in wheat commercial  cultivars, landraces and elite genotypes from Syria and Lebanon. Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Technical Workshop. Poster Abstract, 19-22 August, New Delhi, India.
  • *K.  Nazari and  R. El Amil, 2013. First report of Resistance of wheat line Avocet S to stripe rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) in Syria. Plant disease. 97, Number 7, Page 996.
  • *Lecomte P., Darrieutort G., Liminana J.-M., Comont G., Muruamendiaraz A., Legorburu F.-J., Choueiri E., Jreijiri F., R. El Amil, and Fermaud M., 2012. New insights into esca of grapevine: The development of foliar symptoms and their association with xylem discoloration. Plant Disease. 96:924-934.
  • *R. El Amil, K. Nazari, C. de Vallavieille-Pope, S. Ali, A. Yahyaoui, D. Hodson and M. Hovmøller, 2012. Status of stripe (yellow) rust in Syria in 2010-2011. Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Technical Workshop. Poster Abstract, 1-4 September, Beijing, China.
  • *Choueiri E., Jreijiri F., El Amil R., Chlela P., Bugaret Y., Liminana J.M., Mayet V., LeComte P., 2009. First report of black foot disease associated with Cylindrocarpon spp. in Lebanon. Journal of Plant Pathology.
  • *LeComte P., Darrieutort G., Liminana J.M., Louvet G., Muruamendiaraz A., Legorburu F.J., Choueiri E., Jreijiri F., El Amil R., David N., Vidal C., Fermaud M., 2008. Observing the development of Esca symptoms in the vineyard. Journal of Plant Pathology 90: S2. 455-456p.
  • *Choueiri E., El Zammar S., Jreijiri F., Amil R., Saad A., Hanna L., Ibrahim S., Varveri C., 2006. Incidence and distribution of viral diseases of potato in Lebanon with observations on other major diseases. Nineth Arab Congress of Plant Protection, Damascus, Syria E-94.
  • *KFOURY Linda, ABDOUL-NOUR Hani et EL-AMIL Rola, 2003. Les Aleurodes des Agrumes du Liban : Inventaire Raisonné et Nouvelles Espèces Introduites (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha). Nouv. Revue Ent. (N.S.), 20 (4), 345-351 p.
  • *KFOURY Linda, HILAN Christo, et EL-AMIL Rola, 2002. Residue analysis of pesticides commonly used by lebanese farmers on strawberries, Lebanese Science Journal, Vol.3 No 1, 37-46p.
  • *KFOURY Linda et EL-AMIL Rola, 1998. Les insectes ravageurs des agrumes au Liban. La situation en 1997. Phytoma, Défense des végétaux, 508, 38-39 p.