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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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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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Spontaneous Hybridization between Maize and Teosinte [PDF]
Journal of Heredity, 2007 The closest wild relatives of maize, Zea mays ssp. mays are various Zea taxa known as "teosinte." Hybrids between maize and the teosinte taxon, Zea mays ssp. mexicana, often occur when the 2 are sympatric in Mexico. Measuring the spontaneous hybridization rate of the 2 taxa would shed light on the mechanisms contributing to the evolution and ...
Ellstrand, Norman C. +4 more
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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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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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Crop biotechnology: prospects and opportunities [PDF]
, 2010 SUMMARYThis paper is a brief review summarizing some of the important areas of activity in crop biotechnology likely to be exploited over the medium term (10–20 years), with an emphasis on agronomic traits.
Dunwell, J. M.
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Performance evaluation of provitamin a maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids for yield and other agronomic traits in southwestern Nigeria [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade)Maize is a vital dietary staple in Nigeria, offering crucial nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and micronutrients. However, conventional maize lacks enough of the nutritional precursor for vitamins, necessitating the cultivation of stable,
Akintunde Adewole
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Maize hybrid productivity and grain quality in conditions of the Cis-Ural forest-steppe
AIMS Agriculture and Food, 2019 This study (2016–2017) was conducted to identify highly productive maize hybrids for the conditions of the Bashkortostan Republic. Maize growth, yield and grain quality was examined on different hybrids that gave 3.79–5.55 t/ha of maize.
Raphael Ismagilov +4 more
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Epistasis Activation Contributes Substantially to Heterosis in Temperate by Tropical Maize Hybrids
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Epistasis strongly affects the performance of superior maize hybrids. In this study, a multiple-hybrid population, consisting of three hybrid maize sets with varied interparental divergence, was generated by crossing 28 temperate and 23 tropical inbred ...
Zhiqin Sang +10 more
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