Breeding forage crops requires a genetic evolution to optimize the agronomic and compositional characteristics of the new hybrids. As a dynamic process, it is necessary to evaluate with precision and speed the parameters that determine the nutritional quality, in particular the contents of digest...
Mazabel, Johanna
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Worthington, Margaret
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Castiblanco, Valheria
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Miles, John
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Arango, Jacobo
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[Models for estimating nutrition quality of Urochloa humidicola using near infrared reflectance spectroscopy]
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Models for estimating nutrition quality of Urochloa humidicola using near infrared reflectance spectroscopy
Plant breeding consists in the creation and selection of new genotypes. This involves not only keeping records across generations and environments but also accommodating data of increasing resolution on genotypes, phenotypes, and growth environments. Some such high-resolution characterization met...
Simon, R.
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Córdova, R.
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Hualla, V.
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Salas, E.
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Tejada, S.T.
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Flores, M.R.
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Pollreich, S.
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Haan, Stef de
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Bonierbale, Merideth W.
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[Integrating and sharing accession-level and omics-size genotype, phenotype and environmental data: Experiences at the International Potato Center (CIP).]
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Integrating and sharing accession-level and omics-size genotype, phenotype and environmental data: Experiences at the International Potato Center (CIP).
Water stress is one of the major abiotic stress limitations for grain legume production in smallholder agricultural systems. Phenotypic characterization of water consumption by different species of legumes and genotypes within them plays a key role in adaptation to drought. Dynamics of water use ...
Polanía Perdomo, José A.
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Vadez, Vincent
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Cajiao V., César Hernando
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Beebe, Stephen E.
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[Water use in bean and cowpea: efficiency or effective use of water?]
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Water use in bean and cowpea: efficiency or effective use of water?
Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) is an important crop for more than 20 millions people in Eastern, Southern and Western D.R. Congo, where its consumption can supply 60 % of dietary protein for rural and urban people with an estimated consumption of 60 kg per year and per person. It is the most grown l...
Modern agricultural systems in the tropics are characterized by low resource use efficiency, low productivity and demand large extensions of land. To tackle this scenario, improved pastures have enormous potential to contribute towards a sustainable livestock model, of high productivity and envir...
Villegas, Daniel
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Arévalo, Ashly
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Nuñez, Jonathan
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Mazabel, Johanna
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Arango, Jacobo
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[Phenotyping of a M. maximus founder population for breeding purposes for its BNI potential, biomass production, forage quality and nitrous oxide emissions]
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Phenotyping of a M. maximus founder population for breeding purposes for its BNI potential, biomass production, forage quality and nitrous oxide emissions
The livelihood of approximately 37 million people of the East African (EA) region is highly dependent on livestock. As the pressure for livestock products heightens with growing populations, already harsh environmental conditions are predicted only to worsen (Fisher et al. 2005; Thornton et al. 2...
Oliphant, Hannah
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Mora, Brayan
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Castiblanco, Valheria
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[Determining ideal sites for a pilot experiment in Colombia to trial new forages in East Africa]
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Determining ideal sites for a pilot experiment in Colombia to trial new forages in East Africa
Anthony, V.M.
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Persley, Gabrielle J.
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[The Business of Plant Breeding: Market-led approaches to new variety design]
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The Business of Plant Breeding: Market-led approaches to new variety design