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Plants, 2020 Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important component of global food security but its production is threatened by abiotic stresses in climate change scenarios, especially drought stress.
Sami Ul-Allah +9 more
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Journal of Biological Research, 2019 Understanding of the response of tropical and temperate maize (Zea mays L.) to drought is the first step for tolerant temperate maize improvement. Eight maize hybrids were used to investigate physiology responses under drought stress, four of them were ...
Pu Zhao +7 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 +9 more
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Genotype by environment interaction and stability of extra-early maize hybrids (Zea Mays L.) for yield evaluated under irrigation. [PDF]
, 2017 Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most important cereal crop produced in Ghana. However the change in environmental conditions, the expansion of maize to new agro-ecologies coupled with inadequate maize varieties available for the different environments ...
Akromah, R. (R) +3 more
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Open field study of some Zea mays hybrids, lipid compounds and fumonisins accumulation [PDF]
, 2015 Lipid molecules are increasingly recognized as signals exchanged by organisms interacting in pathogenic and/or symbiotic ways. Some classes of lipids actively determine the fate of the interactions.
Battilani, Paola +8 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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Radiation balance components of maize hybrids grown at various plant densities. [PDF]
, 2005 Components of the energy and heat balances were examined in two maize hybrids grown at three different plant densities (40, 70 and 100 thousand plants per hectare).
Anda, Angéla, Lőke, Zsuzsanna
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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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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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