Unravelling the Effect of Provitamin A Enrichment on Agronomic Performance of Tropical Maize Hybrids [PDF]
Plants, 2021 Maize is consumed in different traditional diets as a source of macro- and micro-nutrients across Africa. Significant investment has thus been made to develop maize with high provitamin A content to complement other interventions for alleviating vitamin ...
Abebe Menkir +9 more
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Suitability of testers to characterize provitamin a content and agronomic performance of tropical maize inbred lines. [PDF]
Front Genet, 2022 Vitamin A deficiency poses health risks for children, pregnant women, and nursing mothers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Southeast Asia. Provitamin A–biofortified maize varieties can contribute to minimizing the adverse effects of vitamin A deficiency ...
Maazou AS +5 more
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Assessing performance and stability of yellow rust resistance, heat tolerance, and agronomic performance in diverse bread wheat genotypes for enhancing resilience to climate change under Egyptian conditions. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 Yellow rust and heat stress adversatively impact the growth and production of bread wheat in particular under rising adverse environmental conditions. Stability of grain yield is a pivotal purpose of plant breeders to improve wheat production and ensure ...
Megahed EMA +6 more
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Suppression of ERECTA Signaling Impacts Agronomic Performance of Soybean (Glycine max (L) Merril) in the Greenhouse [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 The ERECTA (ER) family of genes, encoding leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase (RLK), influences complex morphological and physiological aspects of plants. Modulation of ER signaling leads to abiotic stress tolerance in diverse plant species. However,
Yasmin Vasques Berchembrock +4 more
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Gibberellin Metabolism and Signaling: Targets for Improving Agronomic Performance of Crops. [PDF]
Plant Cell Physiol, 2020 Gibberellins (GAs) are a class of tetracyclic diterpenoid phytohormones that regulate many aspects of plant development, including seed germination, stem elongation, leaf expansion, pollen maturation, and the development of flowers, fruits and seeds ...
Gao S, Chu C.
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Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 2023 Drought is one of the major constraints of wheat production, especially in rainfed wheat production systems. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different silicon fertilizer formulations on the agronomic performance of diverse ...
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Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2022 The perennial forage grass Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth & Dewey, commonly known as intermediate wheatgrass (IWG) or by the commercial name Kernza™, is being developed as a perennial grain crop, i.e.
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Agronomic Performance of Broomrape Resistant and Susceptible Faba Bean Accession
Agronomy, 2022 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.
D. Rubiales, Ana Moral Rama, F. Flores
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CHARACTERIZATION OF FORAGE, SWEET AND BIOMASS SORGHUM FOR AGRONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND ENSILABILITY
Revista Brasileira de Milho e Sorgo, 2022 This study evaluated sorghum cultivars’ agronomic performance and ensilability with different purpose. The experiment was conducted in Sinop/MT in the 2020 growing season.
Maria Antonia BORTOLUCCI DA ROSA +11 more
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Agronomic Performance of Chickpea Affected by Drought Stress at Different Growth Stages
Agronomy, 2022 Susceptibility to drought stress has restrained chickpea productivity at a global level, and the development of drought-tolerant varieties is essential to maintain its productivity.
Supriya Sachdeva +5 more
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