Use of genetic resistance is the most practical and economic way to manage major diseases of yams. In a search for sources of resistance, 40 water yam (Dioscorea alata L.) accessions from Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Puerto Rico were screened under natural disease infection conditions in Ibadan, Nig...
Egesi, Chiedozie N.
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Odu, B.
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Ogunyemi, S.
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Asiedu, Robert
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Hughes, J.
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[Evaluation of water yam (Dioscorea alata L.) germplasm for reaction to yam anthracnose and virus diseases and their effect on yield]
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Evaluation of water yam (Dioscorea alata L.) germplasm for reaction to yam anthracnose and virus diseases and their effect on yield
In the Gulf region, coconuts are almost exclusively produced from palms growing in the Sultanate of Oman, particularly in the extreme south-eastern coastal plain of the Dhofar Governorate, and specifically within the city limits of Salalah, between the Jebel and the sea. The importance of these c...
Perera, L.
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Baudouin, L.
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Bourdeix, R.
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Bait Fadhil, A.
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Hountondji, F.C.C.
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Al-Shanfri, A.
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[Coconut palms on the edge of the desert: genetic diversity of Cocos nucifera L. in Oman]
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Coconut palms on the edge of the desert: genetic diversity of Cocos nucifera L. in Oman
This study was embarked upon to stack two key but inversely associated sweetpotato traits (dry matter and beta-carotene content) through conventional breeding methods. Thirty-seven elite sweetpotato genotypes were evaluated for both traits, and 15 parents comprising five orange-, five yellow- and...
Afuape, S.O.
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Tongoona, P.B.
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Asante, I.K.
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Egesi, Chiedozie N.
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Nwaigwe, G.
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Offei, S.K.
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[Breeding new sweetpotato genotypes combining elevated content of two antagonistic traits of high dry matter and beta-carotene content in a high root yield background]
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Breeding new sweetpotato genotypes combining elevated content of two antagonistic traits of high dry matter and beta-carotene content in a high root yield background
Blümmel, Michael
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Updahyay, S.R.
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Gautam, N.
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Barma, N.C.D.
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Hakim, M.A.
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Hussain, Makhdoom
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Mujahid, M.Y.
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Chatrath, R.
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Sohu, V.S.
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Mavi, G.
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Mishra, V.K.
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Kalappanavar, I.K.
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Naik, Rudra
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Biradar, Suma S.
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Prasad, S.V.S.
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Singh, Ravi P.
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Joshi, Arun K.
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[Comparative assessment of food-fodder traits in a wide range of wheat germplasm for diverse biophysical target domains in South Asia]
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Comparative assessment of food-fodder traits in a wide range of wheat germplasm for diverse biophysical target domains in South Asia
Climate change is expected to aggravate the effects of drought, heat and combined drought and heat stresses. An important step in developing ‘climate smart’ maize varieties is to identify germplasm with good levels of tolerance to the abiotic stresses. The primary objective of this study was to i...
Nelimor, C.
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Badu-Apraku, B.
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Tetteh, A.Y.
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N’guetta, A.S.
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[Assessment of genetic diversity for drought, heat and combined drought and heat stress tolerance in early maturing maize landraces]
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Assessment of genetic diversity for drought, heat and combined drought and heat stress tolerance in early maturing maize landraces
A major constraint to the application of biotechnology to the improvement of the allotetraploid peanut, or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), has been the paucity of polymorphism among germplasm lines using biochemical (seed proteins, isozymes) and DNA markers (RFLPs and RAPDs). Six sequence-tagged...
Ferguson, Morag E.
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Burow, Mark D
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Schulze, S.R.
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Bramel-Cox, P.J.
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Paterson, A.H.
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Kresovich, S.
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Mitchell, S.
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[Microsatellite identification and characterization in peanut (A. hypogaea L.)]
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Microsatellite identification and characterization in peanut (A. hypogaea L.)
Maize (Zea mays L.) landraces in the northern Guinea savanna and Sudan savanna in West and Central Africa appear to have some drought-adaptive traits. This study was initiated to assess the level of improvement in yield potential and other agronomic traits achieved under drought stress (DS) and i...
Meseka, S.K.
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Fakorede, M.A.B.
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Ajala, S.
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Badu-Apraku, B.
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Menkir, A.
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[Introgression of alleles from maize landraces to improve drought tolerance in an adapted germplasm]
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Introgression of alleles from maize landraces to improve drought tolerance in an adapted germplasm
Emergence of several seed companies in the West Africa sub-region during the last decade has necessitated intensified efforts towards hybrid development and extensive testing. The objectives of the present study were to evaluate selected Striga-resistant maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids for grain yiel...
Akinwale, R.
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Badu-Apraku, B.
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Fakorede, M.A.B.
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[Evaluation of strigaresistant early maize hybrids and test locations under strigainfested and strigafree environments]
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Evaluation of strigaresistant early maize hybrids and test locations under strigainfested and strigafree environments
As cassava is grown mostly by small resource-limited farmers throughout the tropics on low-fertility soils with little fertilization and, due to the large potassium (K) export in harvested roots, genotypes that tolerate low-K soils and respond to K fertilization are warranted. The objective of th...
El-Sharkawy, Mabrouk A.
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Cadavid López, Luis Fernando
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[Genetic variation within cassava germplasm in response to potassium]
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Genetic variation within cassava germplasm in response to potassium
People in vast areas of the tropics suffer from vitamin A deficiency, resulting in progressive eye damage and eventually leading to blindness. Improving the content of vitamin A precursors in staple crops could alleviate or solve such a problem. The objective of this work was to study the range o...
Iglesias, C.A.
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Mayer, Jorge Edgard
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Chavez, L.
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Calle, F
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[Genetic potential and stability of carotene content in cassava roots]
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Genetic potential and stability of carotene content in cassava roots