Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Phenotypic data generated from Extra-Early QPM inbred lines evaluation under Low soil nitrogen and drought stress. Optimal and stress (low soil nitrogen and drought)...

Striga hermonthica can cause as high as 100% yield loss in maize depending on soil fertility level, type of genotype, severity of infestation and climatic conditions....

Determine the gene action conditioning grain yield and other traits of the early maturing white QPM inbred lines under CDHS, low-N, and optimal environments and (ii) group the...

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods.

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Breeding for stress resilient maize varieties and hybrids

Landraces of maize (Zea mays L.) are invaluable sources of genetic variability for improving agronomic traits, and they hold great promise in developing new maize varieties with...

The GGE biplot tool has potential for determining combining ability effects, identifying distinct heterotic groups and efficient testers in a line × tester study. However, its...

Availability of multiple-stress tolerant maize is critical for improvement in maize production in West and Central Africa (WCA). A study was carried out to (i) assess a set of...

Vitamin A deficiency, drought, low soil nitrogen (low N) and Striga hermonthica parasitism of maize (Zea mays L.) cause malnutrition and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa....

Determine the gene action conditioning grain yield and other traits of the early maturing white QPM inbred lines under CDHS, low-N, and optimal environments and (ii) group the...

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods