A survey was conducted in 2013 to establish total aflatoxin and total fumonisin in maize, as well as farmers’ practices relating to maize cultivation and awareness of mycotoxins, in three villages of Babati District, northern Tanzania. Quantification of total aflatoxin and fumonisin was done usin...
Nyangi, C.
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Beed, Fen D.
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Mugula, J.K.
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Boni, S.
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Koyano, E.
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Mahuku, George S.
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Sulyok, M.
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Bekunda, Mateete A.
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[Assessment of pre-harvest aflatoxin and fumonisin contamination of maize in Babati District, Tanzania]
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Assessment of pre-harvest aflatoxin and fumonisin contamination of maize in Babati District, Tanzania
The objective of this study was to investigate the occurrence of total aflatoxin and total fumonisin in maize and maize-based products in Babati, northern Tanzania. A total of 160 samples were collected in 2013-14. Quantification for total aflatoxin and fumonisin was done using enzyme-linked immu...
Nyangi, C.
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Mugula, J.K.
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Beed, Fen D.
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Boni, S.
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Koyano, E.
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Sulyok, M.
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[Aflatoxins and fumonisin contamination of marketed maize, maize bran and maize used as animal feed in northern Tanzania]
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Aflatoxins and fumonisin contamination of marketed maize, maize bran and maize used as animal feed in northern Tanzania
Kiruwa, F.H.
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Mutiga, Samuel
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Njuguna, Joyce N.
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Machuka, Eunice
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Senay, S.
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Feyissa, T.
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Ndakidemi, P.A.
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Stomeo, Francesca
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[Status and epidemiology of maize lethal necrotic disease in northern Tanzania]
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Status and epidemiology of maize lethal necrotic disease in northern Tanzania
Salt stress in plants triggers complex physiological responses that are genotype specific. Many of these responses are either not yet described or not fully understood or both. In this work, we phenotyped three maize genotypes of the CIMMYT gene bank alongside the reference B73 genotype (NCRPIS –...
Soares, A.L.C.
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Geilfus, C.M.
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Carpentier, S.C.
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[Genotype-specific growth and proteomic responses of maize toward salt stress]
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Genotype-specific growth and proteomic responses of maize toward salt stress
Rainfed crop management systems need to be optimized to provide more resilient options to cope with projected climatic scenarios forecasting a decrease in mean precipitation and more frequent extreme drought periods in Mexico. Soil water content (0 60 cm) was measured during three crop cycles in ...
Verhulst, Nele
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Nelissen V
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Jespers N
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Haven H
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Sayre KD
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Raes, Dirk
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Deckers, J.
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Govaerts, Bram
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[Soil water content, maize yield and its stability as affected by tillage and crop residue management in rainfed semi-arid highlands]
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Soil water content, maize yield and its stability as affected by tillage and crop residue management in rainfed semi-arid highlands
Agriculture in eastern Africa is predominantly rainfed and maize is a major food crop, primarily produced for home consumption and the market by small-scale family farms. The study characterized farm households in the drought prone maize growing areas of eastern Africa synthesizing data from para...
Erenstein, Olaf
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Kassie, Girma T.
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Langyintuo A
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Mwangi W
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[Characterization of maize producing households in drought prone regions of Eastern Africa]
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Characterization of maize producing households in drought prone regions of Eastern Africa
Tillage practices contribute greatly to the labour cost in modern intensive agriculture in any crop production system resulting in lower economic returns, especially in developing countries where there is most concern for sustainable production without degradation of the natural resource base (Ja...
Jat SL
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Parihar CM
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Singh AK
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Jat, Mangi Lal
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Jat, Kumar Raj
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[Carbon sustainability and productivity of maize based cropping system under conservation agriculture practices in Indo-Gangetic plains]
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Carbon sustainability and productivity of maize based cropping system under conservation agriculture practices in Indo-Gangetic plains
Crop residue use for soil mulch and animal feed are the two major competing purposes and the basic
source of fundamental challenge in conservation agriculture (CA) where residue retention on farm plots is
one of the three CA principles. Using survey data from Kenya and applying bivariate ordered ...
Jaleta, Moti
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Kassie, Menale
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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[Tradeoffs in Crop Residue Utilization in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems and Implications for Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management]
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Tradeoffs in Crop Residue Utilization in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems and Implications for Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management
Phytotoxic effects ofGliricidia prunings were tested on maize seedlings in the laboratory and on maize and cowpea seedlings in the field. In the laboratory test, growth of maize seedlings was significantly depressed by addition of leachate ofGliricidia prunings. In the field, leaf, chlorosis of m...
Tian, G.
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Kang, B.
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[Evaluation of phytotoxic effects of Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Walp prunings on maize and cowpea seedlings]
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Evaluation of phytotoxic effects of Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Walp prunings on maize and cowpea seedlings