Ear-rot-causing fungi, including Aspergillus and Fusarium spp., are common in maize in West and Central Africa. These fungi contaminate maize with mycotoxins that pose serious potential health hazards to humans in these areas. A collaborative germplasm screening project was initiated between the ...
Menkir, A.
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Brown, R.L.
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Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit
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Chen, Z.Y.
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Cleveland, T.E.
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[Breeding maize for resistance to mycotoxins at IITA]
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Breeding maize for resistance to mycotoxins at IITA
Recurrent selection under artificial S. hermonthica infestation has significantly reduced the number of emerged Striga plants and increased grain yield under Striga infestation in broad-based populations. These populations have been sources of varieties and inbred lines with consistently high lev...
Menkir, A.
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Badu-Apraku, B.
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Yallou, C.G.
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Kamara, A.Y.
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Ejeta, G.
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[Breeding maize for broad-based resistance to striga hermonthica]
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Breeding maize for broad-based resistance to striga hermonthica
The major mycotoxins studied at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Re-search (CGIAR) institutes are aflatoxins in maize, groundnut, sorghum and cassava, Fusa-rium toxins in maize, wheat and sorghum, and ochratoxin in cocoa and cashew. Genetic en-hancement (both through plant bre...
Ortiz, R.
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Ban, T.
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Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit
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Bänziger, Marianne
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Bergvinson, David
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Hell, K.
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James, B.
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Jeffers, D.
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Kumar, L.
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Menkir, A.
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Murakami, J.
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Nigam, S.
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Upadhyaya, Hari D.
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Waliyar, F.
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[CGIAR researchfordevelopment program on mycotoxins]
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CGIAR researchfordevelopment program on mycotoxins