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Agronomic and Yield Performance of Maize-Mungbean Intercropping with Different Mungbean Seed Rates under Loamy Sand Soils of Cambodia

Agronomy, 2023
Increasing crop productivity through crop diversification under the same unit area has been considered as a way for sustainable intensification of cropping systems.
Sophoanrith Ro, Siranet Roeurn, Chav Sroy, P. V. Vara Prasad   +3 more
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Unravelling the Effect of Provitamin A Enrichment on Agronomic Performance of Tropical Maize Hybrids

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, Ibnou Dieng, Wende Mengesha, Silvestro Meseka, Bussie Maziya-Dixon, Oladeji Emmanuel Alamu, Bunmi Bossey, Oyekunle Muhyideen, Manfred Ewool, Mmadou Mory Coulibaly   +9 more
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Agronomic behavior of banana cultivars in the geographic microregion of Assis, São Paulo, Brazil [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2022
The characterization of banana cultivars is an important stage, which allows the identification of materials adapted to a particular region. The aim of this study was to evaluate the agronomic performance in the edaphoclimatic conditions of the ...
Adriana Novais Martins, Eduardo Suguino, Humberto Sampaio Araújo, Ricardo Firetti, Patrícia Helena Nogueira Turco, Edson Perito Amorim   +5 more
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Vegetative and productive performance of plantain genotypes of the Terra subgroup

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2021
: The objective of this work was to evaluate the vegetative and productive performance of plantain (Musa spp.) genotypes of the Terra subgroup under the environmental conditions of the Ribeira Valley in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Edson Shigueaki Nomura, Erval Rafael Damatto Junior, Miguel Angel Dita Rodriguez, Edson Perito Amorim, Alex Mesczezem Drominiski   +4 more
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Scale economies and total factor productivity growth on poultry egg farms in Benin: a stochastic frontier approach

Poultry Science, 2020
The study examines economies of scale and sources of total factor productivity growth on poultry farms producing table eggs in Benin Republic. We use panel data on commercial poultry farms from 2010 to 2018, and the flexible translog production functions
Elysée M. Houedjofonon, Nestor R. Ahoyo Adjovi, Sylvain Kpenavoun Chogou, Barthélemy Honfoga, Guy A. Mensah, Anselme Adegbidi   +5 more
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Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging as a Tool for Evaluating Disease Resistance of Common Bean Lines in the Western Amazon Region of Colombia

Plants, 2022
The evaluation of disease resistance is considered an important aspect of phenotyping for crop improvement. Identification of advanced lines of the common bean with disease resistance contributes to improved grain yields.
Juan Carlos Suárez, José Iván Vanegas, Amara Tatiana Contreras, José Alexander Anzola, Milan O. Urban, Stephen E. Beebe, Idupulapati M. Rao   +6 more
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Productivity and quality of Formosa and Solo papaya over two harvest seasons [PDF]

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2017
: The objective of this work was to evaluate the productivity and quality of papaya fruits (Carica papaya) of the Solo (12 genotypes) and Formosa (9 genotypes) heterotic groups over two harvest seasons. The experiment was conducted under field conditions
Fabíola Lacerda de Souza Barros, Karin Tesch Kuhlcamp, Sara Dousseau Arantes, Sarah Ola Moreira   +3 more
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Plant Composition and Feed Value of First Cut Permanent Meadows

Agronomy, 2023
Permanent grasslands represent the main terrestrial ecosystem and serve as an important global reservoir of biodiversity, providing a wide range of benefits to humans and ecosystems.
Aldo Dal Prà, Roberto Davolio, Alessandra Immovilli, Andrea Burato, Domenico Ronga   +4 more
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Characterization of Resistance to Cereal Cyst Nematode, Agronomic Performance, and End-Use Quality Parameters in Four Perennial Wheat-Thinopyrum intermedium Lines

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
Perennial wheat is considered to be a practical way to increase the flexibility and profitability of sustainable agricultural system, as it can be either a forage grass or a grain crop.
Lei Cui, Lei Cui, Yongkang Ren, Yanming Zhang, Zhaohui Tang, Qing Guo, Yuqi Niu, Wenze Yan, Yu Sun, Hongjie Li   +9 more
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Effects of Epichloë endophyte and repeated cutting on nutrition compositions of Festuca sinensis

Plant, Soil and Environment, 2020
The presence of Epichloë endophyte can promote plant growth and increase the accumulation of host plant nutrients. We determined the dry matter (DM) and important nutritional indicators of E+ (infected by endophyte) and E- (not infected by endophyte ...
Weihu Lin, Jianjun Wang, Chong Xu, Dongdong Duan, Wenbo Xu, Pei Tian   +5 more
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