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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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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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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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Properties of different silage maize hybrids [PDF]
Food and Feed Research, 2020 The aim of this study was to observe the properties of ten maize hybrids from Serbia including agronomic traits, lignocellulosic fibre composition and in vitro dry matter digestibility. Five yellow kernel dent hybrids and five analogue red kernel hybrids
Nikolić Valentina V. +4 more
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The analysis of varietal structure of maize cultivated for grain in the Rostov region
Зерновое хозяйство России, 2020 The current stage of plant growing is characterized by varietal policies aimed at increasing the number of new varieties (hybrids) being bred for production.
Yu. B. Arzhenovskaya
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Path analysis of drought tolerant maize hybrid yield and yield components across planting dates [PDF]
Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2019 Analysis of yield components in maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids across planting dates is limited. Research was conducted in 2013 and 2014 at Mead, Nebraska, United States with the objective to determine the influence of year, hybrid, drought tolerance type,
STEVE MASON +3 more
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Investigation of the nutritional and growth indices of Leucania loreyi (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on different maize hybrids [PDF]
نامه انجمن حشرهشناسی ایرانThe maize caterpillar, Leucania loreyi (Duponchel) is one of the economical and important pests of maize that the host plant resistance can have a significant role in controlling of its population.
Hasan Jafari +3 more
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Journal of Medicinal and Industrial Plant Sciences, 2023 Iraq's low maize productivity is primarily due to the use of inferior seeds, weak management, high input rates, infestations of shoot flies and maize borer, extremely high temperatures, and stalk rot.
Namam Bahram Ismael
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Plant Varieties Studying and Protection, 2007 Analysis of the existing methods for earliness group determination of maize varieties and hybrids according to the FAO indices was conducted. Influence of the abiotic factors on earliness of 16 standard maize hybrids in all agroclimatic zones of Ukraine ...
А. В. Андрющенко +1 more
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Frontiers in NutritionIntroductionThe present research focuses on the chapatti making quality of high-yielding white maize hybrids compared to available low-yielding local yellow and white landraces in India.Materials and methodsIn this study, the top nine superior hybrids ...
Arushi Arora +9 more
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