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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Maize Parental Selection
The choice of parents with excellent agronomic performance and good combining ability is a critical step in maize breeding. Analysis of the parents’ isolated behavior and the... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Maize Carotenoid PVA Analysis
Plant phenotyping refers to a quantitative description of the plant's anatomical, ontogenetical, physiological and biochemical properties. Today, rapid developments are taking... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Maize Data Management
The role of data management cannot be underestimated in the modernization efforts of breeding operations in accelerating improvement in genetic gains. Current breeding programs... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Land Preparation and Planting
Land preparation is one of the critical steps to ensure planting of maize trials. Ensuring the preparation of trial fields help in controlling weeds, recycles plant nutrients,... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Maize Harvesting and Seed Handling
The determination of the grain yield potential is the ultimate goal of most maize variety trials. Harvesting marks the end of the field work for each trial. In most cases, all... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Maize Genotyping
Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important cereal that plays a crucial role in alleviating food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to its high yield potential, and low cost. It... -
Standard Operating Procedure for Site Selection and Field Layout
Site selection and field layout are critical aspects of ensuring quality data from phenotyping and breeding trials for optimum performance. Yam plants generally require plain,... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Maize Data Collection
Data collection and management involves broadly five stages, viz. exploration and collection, characterization and evaluation, conservation, exchange and utilization, and... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for digital imaging and quantification of ...
The quantification of weevil damage on banana corms is an important task when assessing resistance. In the process of analysing hundreds of samples for weevil damage, there is... -
Population dynamics of banana aphid
Quantitative knowledge of the relative impact of factors that affect a species’ population dynamics is necessary for its conservation or control. The banana aphid, Pentalonia... -
Data recorded under drought stress
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Data recorded under full irrigation
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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Phenotyping and Data Management of Ea...
The hybrids developed from the different cross combinations undergo a series of trials starting with the early evaluation trial (EET), in which only two replications per... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Ploidy Analysis in Banana
Banana is a natural multi-ploid crop. Wild bananas are seeded diploids (2x), while banana cultivars are seedless, mostly triploid (3x) and sometimes diploid. Because of the... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Field Establishment of Banana crosses
The hybrids developed from the different cross combinations undergo a series of trials starting with the early evaluation trial (EET), in which only two replications per... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Banana Hybridization
The purpose of this document is to describe the SOPs for banana breeding activities and data management. These activities include crossing, evaluation trial establishment,... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Banana Bacterial Wilt Resistance Scree...
Banana is greatly affected by a bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum (Xvm), that causes banana bacterial wilt.1 It is reported to be the most devastating... -
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Phenotyping Banana for Resistance to t...
Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) such as Pratylenchus spp., Helicotylenchus spp., and Radopholus spp. amongst others are a major constraint to sustainable bananas (Musa spp.)... -
Virulence of Cameroonian entomopathogenic fungi isolates of Beauveria bassain...
Testing the susceptibility of entomopathogenic fungi from IITA- Cameroon fungi germplasm( Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae)on larvae instar 5-6 of maize fall armyworm. -
Virulence of Cameroonian entomopathogenic fungi isolates of Beauveria bassain...
Testing the susceptibility of entomopathogenic fungi from IITA- Cameroon fungi germplasm( Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae)on larvae instar 3-4 of maize fall armyworm.
