Context: Up to 65% of arable land in Africa is dedicated to maize production. It is a major commodity and source of food yet the constraint is drought, disease and weeds. The project is trying to make 100 varieties of maize in Africa that we are trying to make drought tolerant. Gender has become ...
En varias regiones de Nicaragua, el cultivo de arroz de secano asume un papel importante para la seguridad alimenticia de las familias campesinas, además es fuente de ingresos para éstas. Apartir del 2002, el CIRAD y el CIAT implementan en colaboración en Nicaragua un proyecto de investigación en...
Trouche, G.
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Narvaez Rojas, L
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Chow, Z
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Corrales Blandon, J.
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[Fitomejoramiento participativo del arroz de secano en Nicaragua : Metodologías, resultados y lecciones aprendidas]
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Fitomejoramiento participativo del arroz de secano en Nicaragua : Metodologías, resultados y lecciones aprendidas
Hershey, Clair H.
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[Cassava breeding: a multidisciplinary review: proceedings of a workshop held in the Philippines, 4-7, March 1985]
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Cassava breeding: a multidisciplinary review: proceedings of a workshop held in the Philippines, 4-7, March 1985
Dwivedi, S.L.
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Britt, A.B.
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Tripathi, L.
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Sharma, S.
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Upadhyaya, Hari D.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Haploids: constraints and opportunities in plant breeding]
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Haploids: constraints and opportunities in plant breeding
The preceding chapter has demonstrated at the macro-level the importance of agricultural and economic growth for the significant reduction in rural poverty in MSEA that has occurred in recent decades. In this chapter we aim to identify and explain the major trends and trajectories of rice-farming...
Cramb, R.A.
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Newby, Jonathan C.
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[Trajectories of rice-farming households in mainland Southeast Asia]
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Trajectories of rice-farming households in mainland Southeast Asia
Brachiaria species are widely sown on the infertile and Al-toxic soils of neotropical savannas. Breeding programs seek to combine edaphic adaptation with other traits in interspecific hybrids. Edaphic adaptation is difficult to assess because it is only manifest in pasture persistence across seve...
Wenzl, Peter
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Arango Vélez, Adriana
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Chavez, Alba L.
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Buitrago González, M.E.
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Patino, GM
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Miles, John W.
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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[A greenhouse method to screen brachiariagrass genotypes for aluminum resistance and root vigor]
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A greenhouse method to screen brachiariagrass genotypes for aluminum resistance and root vigor
Acid soils severely reduce maize (Zea mays L.) yield in the tropics. Breeding for tolerance to soil acidity provides a permanent, environmentally friendly, and inexpensive solution to the problem. This study was carried out to determine the relative importance of additive, dominant, and epistatic...
Ceballos, H.
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Pandey, S.
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Narro Leon, LA
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Pérez Velásquez, Juan Carlos
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[Additive, dominant, and epistatic effects for maize grain yield in acid and non-acid soils]
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Additive, dominant, and epistatic effects for maize grain yield in acid and non-acid soils
For centuries, the populations of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) have endured material poverty, particularly in rural areas and among subsistence-oriented, rice-farming households. In the 20th century in particular, the impact of colonialism, war, and collectivist regimes exacerbated the poverty ...
Cramb, R.A.
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Gray, G.D.
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Gummert, M.
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Haefele, S.M.
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Lefroy, R.D.B.
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Newby, Jonathan C.
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Stür, Werner W.
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Warr, P.
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[Implications of farming trends for agricultural research in mainland Southeast Asia]
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Implications of farming trends for agricultural research in mainland Southeast Asia
In the five countries of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) that are the focus of this review, there is no questioning the importance of rice within the landscape, in the farming systems, in the diet, and even in cultural terms. Currently, an area of about 32 million ha is cultivated to rice each yea...
Lefroy, R.D.B.
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[Non-rice crops in rice-based farming systems in mainland Southeast Asia]
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Non-rice crops in rice-based farming systems in mainland Southeast Asia
Sequencing and analysing of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, the first plant kingdom genome to be unraveled, will always remain a scientific landmark. International initiatives to sequence rice, the most important cereal in Asia, are underway. However as functional information piles up in Arabido...
Mahalakshmi, V.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Plant genomics and agriculture: from model crops to other crops, the role of data mining for gene discovery]
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Plant genomics and agriculture: from model crops to other crops, the role of data mining for gene discovery