The Indus Basin Irrigation System is characterized as a gravity surface irrigation system, with minimal on-line or off-line storage and limited distribution control. An important characteristic is the limited water availability. On field irrigation within the Indus Basin Irrigation System is almost entirely using surface irrigation and only very fe...
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A panel of fully genotyped 400 wheat lines derived from genebank accessions in two managed fields in the Ethiopian highlands in 2012 and 2013 were evaluated. We collected phenotypic data and farmer evaluation data in this trial. For the decentralized trial, we distributed a subset of 41 genotypes as packaged sets containing incomplete blocks of thr...
Indian Council of Agricultural Research / Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation / United States Agency for International Development / Peer Review
Published in Toxins
Deoxynivalenol is one of the most ubiquitous mycotoxins in the Western diet through its presence in cereals and cereal products. A vast amount of studies indicate the worrying level of exposure to this toxin, while even high percentages of the population exceed the tolerable daily intake. To evaluate and assess dietary exposure, analysis of urinary...
Improving fertilizer use efficiency has remained a challenge, particularly for small-scale farming in undulating ‘abnormal’ landscapes of East Africa. Milne's 1930s concept on ‘Catena’ was considered as a breakthrough in understanding soil variability and its implication on productivity in East African highlands. However, there is limited informati...
Soil moisture is a highly suitable indicator for assessing agricultural drought, as plants start to wilt when there is not sufficient soil water to meet evapotranspiration demand. In this study, we provide insights on information obtained from satellite surface soil moisture observations (as compared to modeled soil moisture and observed ground pre...
Rice–wheat (RW) cropping system in India is a major source of N2O emissions. In such system, defining N rates that deliver minimal N2O emissions and economically optimum yield would benefit both food production and the environment. We measured yield and N2O fluxes from RW systems in Northwest IGP under two tillage systems and five N rates (0, 75, 1...
Fusarium mycotoxins and their derivatives are frequently detected in freshly harvested forage maize. This study assessed the time course effects during ensiling of forage maize on the fate of Fusarium mycotoxins, using laboratory-scale silos and artificially contaminated raw material. A multi-mycotoxin liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spe...
The effects of starch origin on water migration and starch transformation were investigated using one- and two-dimensional TD-NMR methods. The quantification of T1 and especially of T2 relaxation times during thermal treatment enabled their interpretation relative to the sorption, gelatinization and retrogradation phenomena of starches in the prese...
