Maize is a major food crop in Africa and primarily grown by small-holder farmers under rain-fed conditions with low fertilizer input. Projections of decreasing precipitation and increasing fertilizer prices accentuate the need to provide farmers with maize varieties tolerant to random abiotic stress, especially drought and N deficiency. Genetic improvement for the target environment in Eastern and Southern Africa can be achieved by: (i) direct selection of grain yield in random abiotic stress environments, (ii) indirect selection for a secondary trait or grain yield in optimal, low-N and/or managed stress environments, or (iii) index selection using information from all test environments. At present, the maize hybrid testing programs of the...
Hybrids of wheat, barley, and triticale are expected to possess higher yield performance and yield s...
About two hundred and twenty three million people are undernourished in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) wit...
The eu-oceanic woodland herb Ceratocapnos claviculata has been expanding north- and eastwards into n...
Breeding for stress tolerance is the most cost effective way of avoiding drought-induced yield reduc...
Food supply and income in rural areas of West Africa (WA) depend strongly on the local production, a...
Since the introduction of maize into Europe, open-pollinated varieties of flint maize were cultivate...
A growing world population juxtaposed with dwindling phosphorus (P) resources present new challenges...
The area of maize (Zea mays L.) grown for production of biogas has tremendously increased in Germany...
Stalk lodging causes yield losses in maize cultivation ranging from 5 to 20% annually worldwide and ...
Triticale (×Triticosecale Wittmack) breeding is a success story as it evolved to a serious alternati...
Maize is affected by a number of diseases. Among the various ear rots of maize, Gibberella ear rot (...
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is a major cereal crop in Ethiopia and accounts for 8% of the total cere...
During the last decades, implementation of molecular markers such as single nucleotide polymorphisms...
Arable weeds are one of the most endangered species groups in Central Europe. Modern agriculture and...
West Africa suffers from climate uncertainty, high levels of variability, lack of access to real-tim...
Hybrids of wheat, barley, and triticale are expected to possess higher yield performance and yield s...
About two hundred and twenty three million people are undernourished in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) wit...
The eu-oceanic woodland herb Ceratocapnos claviculata has been expanding north- and eastwards into n...
Breeding for stress tolerance is the most cost effective way of avoiding drought-induced yield reduc...
Food supply and income in rural areas of West Africa (WA) depend strongly on the local production, a...
Since the introduction of maize into Europe, open-pollinated varieties of flint maize were cultivate...
A growing world population juxtaposed with dwindling phosphorus (P) resources present new challenges...
The area of maize (Zea mays L.) grown for production of biogas has tremendously increased in Germany...
Stalk lodging causes yield losses in maize cultivation ranging from 5 to 20% annually worldwide and ...
Triticale (×Triticosecale Wittmack) breeding is a success story as it evolved to a serious alternati...
Maize is affected by a number of diseases. Among the various ear rots of maize, Gibberella ear rot (...
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is a major cereal crop in Ethiopia and accounts for 8% of the total cere...
During the last decades, implementation of molecular markers such as single nucleotide polymorphisms...
Arable weeds are one of the most endangered species groups in Central Europe. Modern agriculture and...
West Africa suffers from climate uncertainty, high levels of variability, lack of access to real-tim...
Hybrids of wheat, barley, and triticale are expected to possess higher yield performance and yield s...
About two hundred and twenty three million people are undernourished in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) wit...
The eu-oceanic woodland herb Ceratocapnos claviculata has been expanding north- and eastwards into n...