Selection indices provide useful information to breeders who usually base selection on meansand ranks. Knowledge on selection criteria for improving tef grain yield is very limited. Accordingly, theobjective of this study was to develop selection criteria for improving tef grain yield through ind...
Chanyalew, S.
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Tefera, H.
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Zelleke, H
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[Selection index for improving grain yield and related traits in Tef (Eragrostis Tef)]
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Selection index for improving grain yield and related traits in Tef (Eragrostis Tef)
Background
Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is the major cereal crop in Ethiopia. Tef is an allotetraploid with a base chromosome number of 10 (2n = 4× = 40) and a genome size of 730 Mbp. The goal of this study was to identify agronomically important quantitative trait loci (QTL) using recom...
This paper describes a highly client-oriented breeding applied to enhance the development and release of a tef (Eragrostis tef) variety with farmer participation in Ethiopia. The main features include; clear objective, target cross, early-stage researcher selection, multi-location yield trial, fa...
Belay, G.
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Tefera, H.
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Getachew, A.
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Assefa, K.
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Metaferia, G.
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[Highly clientoriented breeding with farmer participation in the Ethiopian cereal tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter)]
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Highly clientoriented breeding with farmer participation in the Ethiopian cereal tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter)
Molecular genetic analysis of tef using 85 Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP), 50Expressed Sequence Tag-Simple sequence Repeats (EST-SSRs), 20 Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR)and 14 Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) was conducted using a population of 124 F7 recombinant inbred lines (RIL...
Chanyalew, S.
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Tefera, H.
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Harjit-Singh
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Sorrells, M.E.
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[Comparison of AFLP, ESTSSR, ISSR and SSR markers for polymorphism among recombinant inbred lines of tef (Eragrostis tef)]
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Comparison of AFLP, ESTSSR, ISSR and SSR markers for polymorphism among recombinant inbred lines of tef (Eragrostis tef)
Tef is a staple cereal of Ethiopia in high demand by consumers. In order to cope up with this high consumer demand, productivity per unit of land must increase through the development and use of high-yielding varieties. To this effect, the National Tef Research Project has long been striving towa...
Tefera, H.
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Belay, G.
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Assefa, K.
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[Genetic variation in F2 populations and their potential in the improvement of grain yield in tef (Eragrostis tef)]
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Genetic variation in F2 populations and their potential in the improvement of grain yield in tef (Eragrostis tef)
Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is an important food staple cereal crop in Ethiopia. Despite its importance in the Ethiopian agriculture, there are constraints that need to be addressed through scientific research. The major constraints are low yield of landrace cultivars under widespread cu...