Potato is the important food crop after wheat and rice, and its nutritious tubers are becoming increasingly popular in the developing world. Keeping up with the demand means adapting the potato to thrive in various soils and climates. It must also resist new threats from pests, disease, heat, and...
Stokstad, E.
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[The new potato. Breeders seek a breakthrough to help farmers facing an uncertain future.]
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The new potato. Breeders seek a breakthrough to help farmers facing an uncertain future.
Tenkouano, A.
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Swennen, R.
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[Progress in breeding and delivering improved plantain and banana to African farmers]
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Progress in breeding and delivering improved plantain and banana to African farmers
Application of field based high-throughput phenotyping (FB-HTP) methods for monitoring plant performance in real field conditions has a high potential to accelerate the breeding process. In this paper, we discuss the use of a simple tower based remote sensing platform using modified single-lens r...
Naito, Hiroki
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Ogawa, Satoshi
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Valencia, Milton Orlando
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Mohri, Hiroki
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Urano, Yutaka
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Hosoi, Fumiki
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Shimizu, Yo
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Chavez, Alba L.
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Ishitani, Manabu
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Selvaraj, Michael Gomez
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Omasa, Kenji
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[Estimating rice yield related traits and quantitative trait loci analysis under different nitrogen treatments using a simple tower-based field phenotyping system with modified single-lens reflex cameras]
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Estimating rice yield related traits and quantitative trait loci analysis under different nitrogen treatments using a simple tower-based field phenotyping system with modified single-lens reflex cameras
The magnitude and type of genetic variability are of prime importance to breeders in determining whether or not to improve a breeding population and the method to use. The early maturing population, TZE-W Pop DT STR, has gone through three cycles of S1 recurrent selection for improvement for grai...
Badu-Apraku, B.
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[Genetic variances and correlations in an early tropical white maize population after three cycles of recurrent selection for Striga resistance]
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Genetic variances and correlations in an early tropical white maize population after three cycles of recurrent selection for Striga resistance
Sweetpotato is used in various food preparations in place of rice, cassava, yam and plantain in Ghana. In spite of this it does not have the same importance in Ghanaian diet as other root and tuber crops. Consumer taste, preference and acceptance are critical in determining the suitability of swe...
Baafi, E.
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Manu-Aduening, J.A.
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Carey, E.E.
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Ofori, K.
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Blay, E.T.
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Gracen, V.E.
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[Constraints and breeding priorities for increased sweetpotato utilization in Ghana]
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Constraints and breeding priorities for increased sweetpotato utilization in Ghana
Tenkouano, A.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Okoro, J.
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Makumbi, Dan
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Swennen, R.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Diploid banana hybrids TMB2x51051 and TMB2x91283 with good combining ability, resistance to black sigatoka and nematodes]
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Diploid banana hybrids TMB2x51051 and TMB2x91283 with good combining ability, resistance to black sigatoka and nematodes
Dioscorea alata L. is a highly important crop, widely distributed in the humid and semi-humid tropics. Flow cytometry was used to determine the ploidy levels of 74 D. alata genotypes collected mainly from West African countries. Sixty three of the genotypes were found to be tetraploid, one was he...
Obidiegwu, J.E.
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Rodríguez, E.
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Ene-Obong, E.E.
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Loureiro, J.
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Muoneke, C.
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Santos, C.
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Kolesnikova-Allen, M.
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Asiedu, Robert
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[Ploidy levels of Dioscorea alata L. germplasm determined by flow cytometry]
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Ploidy levels of Dioscorea alata L. germplasm determined by flow cytometry
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L. (Lam)) is a nutritious food security crop for most tropical households, but its utilisation is very low in Ghana compared to the other root and tuber crops due to lack of end-user-preferred cultivars. Knowledge on the genetic control of important traits such as dry...
Baafi, E.
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Gracen, V.E.
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Manu-Aduening, J.A.
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Blay, E.T.
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Ofori, K.
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Carey, E.E.
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[Genetic control of dry matter, starch and sugar content in sweetpotato]
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Genetic control of dry matter, starch and sugar content in sweetpotato
Over the past 15 years, biofortification, the process of breeding nutrients into food crops, has gained ample recognition as a cost-effective, complementary, feasible means of delivering micronutrients to populations that may have limited access to diverse diets, supplements, or commercially fort...
Andersson, Meike S.
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Saltzman, Amy
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Virk, Parminder Singh
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Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H.
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[Progress update: Crop development of biofortified staple food crops under Harvestplus]
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Progress update: Crop development of biofortified staple food crops under Harvestplus
Crop biofortification is a cost-effective and sustainable agricultural trategy to reduce micronutrient malnutrition arising from iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) deficiencies. A large number of hybrids and open-pollinated varieties (OPVs) of pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] have been release...
Rai, Kedar N.
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Yadav, O.P.
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Govindaraj, M.
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Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H.
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Yadav, H.P
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Rajpurohit, B.S
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Patil, H.T
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Kanatti, A.
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Rathore, A
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Rao, A.S.
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Shivade, H
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[Grain iron and zinc densities in released and commercial cultivars of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)]
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Grain iron and zinc densities in released and commercial cultivars of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)