A collection of 74 perennial Panicum accessions, belonging to 6 different species, maintained at the field genebank of the International Livestock Research Institute, was described using 49 agromorphological characters in a multivariate analysis. Fifty-four accessions, for which coordinates of th...
Wouw, M. van de
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Jorge, M.A.B.
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Bierwirth, J.
,
Hanson, Jean
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[Characterisation of a collection of perennial Panicum species]
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Characterisation of a collection of perennial Panicum species
An investigation was made into the epidemiology of nematode infections of sheep in two districts of Jimma zone, southwestern Ethiopia. We used two approaches—long-term monitoring of identified sheep for nematode infection and abattoir or market survey for analysis. In the first monitoring regime,...
Jorge, M.A.B.
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Wouw, M. van de
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Hanson, Jean
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Mohammed, J.
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[Characterisation of a collection of buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris)]
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Characterisation of a collection of buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris)
Web 2.0 tools combined with face-to-face methods offer new opportunities for better knowledge sharing across disciplines, languages and borders. This article comprises an overview and case studies – the personal accounts of six participants and one facilitator of a 2008 Workshop on Knowledge Shar...
Staiger-Rivas, Simone
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Galiè, Alessandra
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Hack, Bernard
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Jorge, M.A.B.
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Meadu, Vanessa
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Tateossian, F.
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Salokhe, G.
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White, N.
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[Learning to share knowledge for global agricultural progress]
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Learning to share knowledge for global agricultural progress
For the November 2011 'liveSTOCK Exchange' event at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Alexandra Jorge, reflects on ILRI's forage research and the importance of the forage seeds genebank hosted at ILRI in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mucuna is an important legume for livestock feed and is widely used as a cover crop. It is particularly difficult to grow in vitro owing to the production of phenolic compounds, which oxidize the growth media within a few days and prevent plant tissues to develop. Traditional tissue culture metho...
Jorge, M.A.B.
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Hanson, Jean
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Gebremariam, G.
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Proud, J.
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[Natural plant extracts for the in vitro culture of mucuna pruriens]
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Natural plant extracts for the in vitro culture of mucuna pruriens
Jorge, M.A.B.
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Claessens, G.
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Hanson, Jean
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Dulloo, M.E.
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Goldberg, E.D.
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Thormann, I.
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Alemayehu, S.
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[Knowledge base for best practices of genebank management. Why and how it was developed.]
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Knowledge base for best practices of genebank management. Why and how it was developed.
Biotechnology techniques have been widely used for legumes - important crops with excellent nutritional characteristics and soil improvement qualities. Limited work has been carried out with underutilized legume crops such as velvet bean (Mucuna spp.), which have great potential for multiple uses...
Jorge, M.A.B.
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Eilittä, M.
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Proud, F.J.
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Maasdorp, B.V.
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Beksissa, H.
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Sarial, A.K.
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Hanson, Jean
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[Mucuna Species: recent advances in application of biotechnology]
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Mucuna Species: recent advances in application of biotechnology
Ninety–eight accessions of Cynodon, belonging to 4 different species and including several hybrids were haracterised using a set of 23 agro–morphological characters. The collection included both collections from natural populations
and breeding lines, selected among siblings
of open–pollinated pl...
Wouw, M. van de
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Mohammed, J.
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Jorge, M.A.B.
,
Hanson, Jean
,
[Agro-morphological characterisation of a collection of Cynodon]
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Agro-morphological characterisation of a collection of Cynodon
A collection of 74 perennial Panicum accessions, belonging to 6 different species, maintained at the field genebank of the International Livestock Research Institute, was described using 49 agromorphological characters in a multivariate analysis.
Wouw, M. van de
,
Jorge, M.A.B.
,
Bierwirth, J.
,
Hanson, Jean
,
[Characterization of a collection of perennial Panicum species]
,
Characterization of a collection of perennial Panicum species