Outlines a re-evaluation and a re-calculation of recently published hypothesis concerning the potential impact of alley farming on maize yields. Gives modifications and analysis based on the alley farming research of the International Livestock Center for Africa's (ILCA) Humid Zone Programme in N...
Sumberg, J.E.
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Atta-Krah, A.N.
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[The potential of alley farming in humid West Africa - a re-evaluation]
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The potential of alley farming in humid West Africa - a re-evaluation
Pandey, Shivaji
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Diallo, A.O.
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Islam, T.M.T.
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Deutsch, J.
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[Response to full-sib selection in four medium maturity maize populations]
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Response to full-sib selection in four medium maturity maize populations
Evaluates alley farming models with small ruminants based on field and experimental data from southwest Nigeria, and compares them to basic alley cropping and to fallow systems. Describes the basic fallow model, the basic alley cropping model without animals, the alley farming model with goats, a...
Sumberg, J.E.
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McIntire, John M.
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Okali, C.
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Atta-Krah, A.N.
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[Analyse economique de la culture en couloirs a composante fourragere]
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Analyse economique de la culture en couloirs a composante fourragere
A virus with filamentous particles approximately 750 nm long was isolated from African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) with `chlorotic ring' leaf symptoms in south-western Colombia. The virus was mechanically transmitted from oil palm to brachiaria, maize, sorghum, and sugarcane (Gramineae) but not ...
Morales, Francisco José
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Lozano Potes, I
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Sedano Cruz, RE
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Castaño, M.
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Arroyave, José A.
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[Partial characterization of a potyvirus infecting African oil palm in South America]
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Partial characterization of a potyvirus infecting African oil palm in South America
One experiment was completed with 56 weanling Duroc x Landrace x Yorkshire swine and two with weanling Sprague-Dawley rats to determine the nutritive value of Colombian floury-2 corn in comparison with that of Colombian opaque-2 and Colombian common corn. In both rats and swine Colombian floury-2...
Maner, JH
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Pond, WG
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Gallo, JT
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Henao, A
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Portela, R
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Linares, F.A.
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[Performance of rats and swine fed Colombian floury-2, Colombian opaque-2 or normal corn]
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Performance of rats and swine fed Colombian floury-2, Colombian opaque-2 or normal corn
The following nine main cropping systems were evaluated: maize/maize in rotation without N-fertilizer (control); maize/cowpea in rotation where maize received N-fertilizer; maize/pigeonpea intercropping without N-fertilizer; maize/cowpea/pigeonpea in rotation where maize received N-fertilizer; ma...
Aihou, K.
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Sanginga, Nteranya
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Diels, J.
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Merkx, R
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Cleemput, O. van
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[Restoration of terre de barre fertility using pigeonpea grown in rotation or intercropping with maize in the derived savanna of Benin]
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Restoration of terre de barre fertility using pigeonpea grown in rotation or intercropping with maize in the derived savanna of Benin
Nitrogen (N) has been gradually depleted from West African soils and now poses serious threats to food production. Many ways of increasing N supply (e.g. judicious use of inorganic fertilizers and nitrogen-fixing plants) have been tried in West African farming systems. Herbaceous and woody legume...
Sanginga, Nteranya
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[Role of biological nitrogen fixation in legume based cropping systems: A case study of West Africa farming systems]
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Role of biological nitrogen fixation in legume based cropping systems: A case study of West Africa farming systems
Nitrogen deficiency severely limits production of the bean maize association grown by small-scale farmers in upland Peru. Sixty-four bean Rhizobium isolates were evaluated for induction of a plant growth response in pots of soil from the area and 14 of the most promising strains of these were tes...
Pineda, P
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Kipe-Nolt, Judith A.
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Rojas Alvarado, E
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[Rhizobium inoculation increases of bean and maize yields in intercrops on farms in the Peruvian Sierra]
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Rhizobium inoculation increases of bean and maize yields in intercrops on farms in the Peruvian Sierra
Strigolactones released from plant rootstrigger both seed germination of parasitic weeds such
as
Striga
spp. and hyphal branching of the symbionts arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi.
Generally, strigolactone composition in exudates is quantitatively and qualitatively different
among plants, which ...
Yoneyama, K.
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Arakawa, R.
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Ishimoto, K.
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Kim, H.I.
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Kisugi, T.
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Xie, X.
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Nomura, T.
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Kanampiu, F.
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Yokota, T.
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Ezawa, T.
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Yoneyama, K.
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[Difference in Strigasusceptibility is reflected in strigolactone secretion profile, but not in compatibility and host preference in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in two maize cultivars]
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Difference in Strigasusceptibility is reflected in strigolactone secretion profile, but not in compatibility and host preference in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in two maize cultivars
Maize stover is used to feed farm animals and the improvement of its quality is an important breeding goal. The main objective of our study was to evaluate a new near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy sample presentation unit for measuring feed quality of maize stover. In this context, we investigated ...
Montes, J.M.
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Montes, J.M.
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Mirdita, V.
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Prasad, K.
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Blümmel, Michael
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Melchinger, A.E.
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[A new infrared spectroscopy sample presentation unit for measuring feeding quality of maize stover]
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A new infrared spectroscopy sample presentation unit for measuring feeding quality of maize stover