Training manual for small-scale bean producers in Southern highlands of Tanzania
Kijitabu cha kufundishia wakulima wadogo wa Maharage wa nyanda za juuu kusini mwa Tanzania
Assessment of genetic diversity for drought, heat and combined drought and heat stress tolerance in early maturing maize...
Open Access Article; Published online: 17 Nov 2019 / 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...
Protein-rich legume and pseudo-cereal crop suitability under present and future European climates
Open Access Article; Published online: 29 Nov 2019. / Replacing animal proteins with plant proteins in diets has been demonstrated to have both health and environmental advantages, driving a debate about the potential of protein-rich crops as dietary replacements for animal products. However, there is a lack of knowledge on how climate change could...
Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)
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Crop wild relatives are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement. Knowledge gaps, including with regard to taxonomy, distributions, and characterization for traits of interest constrain their use in plant breeding. These deficiencies also affect conservation planning, both with regard to in situ habitat protection, and further collection of ...
Metabolomics in CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB).
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) is supporting investments in metabolomics in collaboration with the Fraser lab at Royal Holloway University London (RHUL). The metabolome is the global collection of all low molecular weight chemical compounds that are produced by cell metabolism in different sizes, polarity and quantiti...
Association studies between grain yield and agronomic traits of a MARS maize (Zea mays L.) population under drought and ...
Open Access Journal / The study aimed at examining the associations between yield and other traits under drought stress and non-stress conditions. A total of 150 MARS testcrosses were evaluated under both conditions at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture substation for two years under during the dry season. Genotypic and phenotypic ...
Distributions and Conservation Status of Carrot Wild Relatives in Tunisia: A Case Study in the Western Mediterranean Bas...
Crop wild relatives, the wild progenitors and closely related cousins of cultivated plant species, are sources of valuable genetic resources for crop improvement. Persisting gaps in knowledge of taxonomy, distributions, and characterization for traits of interest constrain their expanded use in plant breeding and likewise negatively affect ex situ ...
Ecological drivers of pteridophyte diversity and distribution in Togo (West Africa)
Published online: 19 Sept 2019. / The conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity requires an understanding of the biotic and abiotic factors that condition the presence and survival of organisms in natural habitats. The global distribution and ecological hypersensitivity of pteridophytes have made them ideal candidates for studying the...
Genomics-assisted breeding for drought tolerance in cowpea
Published online: 02 July 2019 / The importance of cowpea, Vigna unguiculata, in human and animal nutrition and sustainability of soil fertility are recognized globally especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the crop is mainly produced in the Savanna and the Sahelian agro ecologies. However, cowpea productivity is adversely affected by both b...
