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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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Biological Control of Food Pests [PDF]
, 1991 News release announcing that the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has achieved major success in the biological control of one damaging African food peat, and made progress towards controlling another. IITA's success in
CGIAR Secretariat, Keyser, Jack
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Effect of temperature, rainfall and planting date on aflatoxin and fumonisin contamination in commercial Bt and non-Bt corn hybrids in Arkansas [PDF]
, 2007 Corn (maize, Zea mays) is susceptible to contamination with aflatoxins, fumonisins and other mycotoxins, particularly in the southeastern USA. In principle, mycotoxin contamination could be reduced in commercial corn hybrids with shorter growing seasons ...
Abbas, Hamed K. +2 more
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Tests d'utilisation d'herbicides pour la lutte contre Striga hermonthica [PDF]
, 1997 La lutte contre le #Striga# explore trois voies complémentaires : la sélection de variétés tolérantes, les méthodes agronomiques de gestion de la culture, et enfin la destruction des parties aériennes du parasite, par sarclage/arrachage ou à l'aide d ...
Dembélé, Daouda +3 more
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New Phytologist, Volume 244, Issue 6, Page 2121-2126, December 2024.
Jian You Wang +6 more
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Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental ManagementThe objective of this paper is to identify the causes and impact of port/harbor accident on operational performance at Tin Can Island, Lagos, Nigeria using appropriate standard methods to obtain primary and secondary data from reliable sources by ...
A. R. Okpara +3 more
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Catalogue des ennemis naturels des macrophytes flottants Pistia stratiotes, Salvinia molesta et Eichhornia crassipes [PDF]
, 1991 We identified from bibliographical review and field observations fourty two species composed essentially of molluscs and insects. These animals attack floating plants such as E. crassipes, P. stratiotes and S. molesta.
Sankaré, Y.
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Phytochemicals Screening in Four Solvent Extractions of Pulverized Witchweed (Striga asiatica)
Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental ManagementStriga asiatica, commonly known as Witchweed, is a parasitic plant that significantly impacts cereal crops such as maize, sorghum, and millet, leading to severe agricultural losses. Besides its agricultural threat, S.
G. F. Kontagora, N. M. Ibrahim
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Potential Markets for Herbicide Resistant Maize Seed for Striga Control in Africa [PDF]
Striga is an obligate parasitic weed attacking cereal crops in Subsaharan Africa. In Western Kenya, it is identified by farmers as their major pest problem in maize.
De Groote, Hugo +4 more
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USDA regulation of organisms developed through modern breeding technologies [PDF]
, 2014 Agricultural biotechnology; DNA editing; genome engineering; targetable nucleases; TALEN; CRISPR/cas9; DNA-targeting; mutagenesis; regulation; modern breeding ...
Hoffman, Neil E.
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