Striga Management through Herbicide Resistance: A Public-Private Partnership in Action [PDF]
Striga is an indigenous parasitic weed that attacks cereals and other crops in Africa. In maize croplands alone, Striga infests over 2.3 million ha resulting in 1.6 million tons of grain loss worth US $383 million annually.
Savala, Canon N., Woomer, Paul L.
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How to produce more biomass for direct seeding mulched based cropping system in sub-saharian Africa ? Example in North Cameroun [PDF]
, 2010 In North Cameroon, from 2001 to 2006, more than 250 farmers tried direct seeding mulchbased cropping systems (DMC) in their fields. DMC systems were based on farmer traditional rotation i.e. cereal//cotton.
Balarabe, Oumarou, Naudin, Krishna
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, 1997 Department of Chemistry, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga-585 106 Manuscript received 29 September 1995, accepted 29 January 1996 Flavones from Striga lutea.
S. P. HIREMATH, S. HANUMANTHARAO
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Determining smallholder farmers’ preferences for Push-Pull technology dissemination pathways in western Kenya [PDF]
The push-pull technology (PPT) has widely been disseminated to control stemborer (Chilo partellus and Busseola fusca) and Striga weeds (Striga hermonthica and Striga asiatica) in maize fields in Kenya. This study examined farmers’ preferences for various
Amudavi, David M. +4 more
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Plants, People, PlanetSocietal Impact Statement The root‐parasitic plant Striga hermonthica can cause severe crop failure, leading to significant agricultural and economic losses in Africa.
Jiazheng Chen +3 more
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Nutritient flow scenarios for sustainable smallholder faming systems in southwestern Burkino Faso : food security and better livelihoods for rural dryland communities [PDF]
, 2017 The report presents a study on nutrient flows of agricultural livelihood systems dominated by smallholder farms in South-western Burkina Faso. The material flow analysis of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium provides a detailed picture of current ...
Boundia, Alexandre Thiombiano +2 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 Striga hermonthica (witchweed) is a parasitic weed that attacks and significantly reduces the yields of maize, sorghum, millet and sugarcane throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
David Chandler Sands +7 more
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Comparative Metabolomics of Early Development of the Parasitic Plants Phelipanche aegyptiaca and Triphysaria versicolor. [PDF]
, 2019 Parasitic weeds of the family Orobanchaceae attach to the roots of host plants via haustoria capable of drawing nutrients from host vascular tissue. The connection of the haustorium to the host marks a shift in parasite metabolism from autotrophy to at ...
Clermont, Kristen +7 more
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Classification and influence of agricultural information on striga and stemborer control in Suba and Vihiga Districts, Kenya [PDF]
This paper reports on findings of a study to examine the sources used by farmers in search of agricultural information on striga and/or stemborers control technologies and factors that influence acquisition of such information in Western Kenya region.
Amudavi, David M. +5 more
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Change in population and land use intensity under the aspect of the physical environment and accessibility [PDF]
, 2007 The land use in the Tangale-Waja area is analysed according to the two basic categories of geography: Firstly the manifold interaction between men and environment which form the spatial characteristics of an area, and secondly the decrease of influence ...
Fricke, Werner +2 more
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