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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 +9 more
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Botanical Gazette, 1918 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Agriculture, 2020 Use of small doses of imazapyr and pyrithiobac for seed coatings of imazapyr-resistant maize hybrids (IR-Maize) offers an effective means to control Striga hermonthica.
Alpha Yaya Kamara +5 more
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Antioxidative enzyme activities in maize genotypes grown under saline water irrigation
Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2017 Plants with high levels of antioxidant enzymes have been reported to have greater tolerance to this oxidative damage caused by salinity. Role of antioxidative enzyme activity in salt stress and screening maize hybrids for salinity tolerance was ...
B. Nandhini devi +2 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Understanding combining ability and heterosis among diverse maize germplasm resources is important for breeding hybrid maize (Zea mays L.). Using 28 temperate and 23 tropical maize inbreds that represent different ecotypes and worldwide diversity of ...
Kanchao Yu +13 more
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Effect of Mineral and Nano-Nitrogen Fertilizers on Yield and Its Components of Soybean and Maize Hybrids under Intercropping System [PDF]
Journal of Plant Production, 2022 Three hybrids of maize (SC-168, SC-176 and TWC-321) were the subject of a field experiment conducted at the El-Serw Agricultural Research Station, and four combinations of mineral and Nano-N fertilization (120 kg N/fed mineral as a control treatment, 50%
M. Ismail, Y. EL-ghobashi
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Fatty acid composition of maize germ oil from high-oil hybrids wet-milling processing [PDF]
Acta Periodica Technologica, 2005 Maize germ was obtained by wet-milling laboratory processing of domestic high-oil maize hybrids. After separation, the germ was subjected to extraction of maize oil. Fatty acid composition of maize germ oil was determined by gas chromatography.
Jovanović Petar Lj. +2 more
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The performance of new early maturing pro-vitamin A maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids in the derived savanna agro-ecology of Nigeria [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade), 2021 Maize (Zea mays L.) is a staple food for millions of people across the globe, and it supplies more than 30% of total dietary calories. However, the normal endosperm lacks a sufficient quantity of the nutritive precursor of vitamin A.
Kolawole Adesike O. +2 more
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Drought responses of foliar metabolites in three maize hybrids differing in water stress tolerance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids varying in drought tolerance were treated with water stress in controlled environments. Experiments were performed during vegetative growth and water was withheld for 19 days beginning 17 days after sowing.
Jinyoung Y Barnaby +5 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Climatic conditions significantly affect the maize productivity. Among abiotic factors, nitrogen (N) fertilizer and temperature are the two important factors which dominantly affect the maize (Zea mays L.) production during the early crop growth stages ...
Hafiz Mohkum Hammad +14 more
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