Combining ability and heterosis were studied in a 9 × 27 North Carolina II mating design to investigate the inheritance of agronomic traits of interest in Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs. The main objective is to identify the best apomictic tester to be used as parent in recurrent selection breeding scheme (Hernández & Castib...
Published in Frontiers in Genetics
Legumes are highly nutritious in proteins and are good food for humans and animals because of their nutritional values. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPR) are microbes dwelling in the rhizosphere soil of a plant contributing to the healthy status, growth promotion of crops, and preventing the invasion of diseases. Root exudates produced from th...
Construire une agriculture basée sur la diversité engage un changement dans les raisonnements et les valeurs des agriculteurs. Selon une perspective pragmatique, ceux-ci se révèlent et se transforment dans l'action. Nous avons étudié ces transformations en interrogeant la pratique de sélection participative du maïs population. De manière complément...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Published in Frontiers in Genome Editing
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Introduction Sheath blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani is one of the major diseases of rice, causing widespread crop losses. The use of semi-dwarf rice varieties in the ongoing nutrient-intensive rice cultivation system has further accentuated the incidence of the disease. An ideal solution to this problem would be identifying a stable sheath blig...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is a worldwide acclaimed important agricultural crop used primarily for sugar production and biofuel. Sugarcane’s genetic complexity, aneuploidy, and extreme heterozygosity make it a challenging crop in developing improved varieties. The molecular breeding programs promise to develop nutritionally improved varieti...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
The adoption of dicamba-tolerant (DT) soybean in the United States resulted in extensive off-target dicamba damage to non-DT vegetation across soybean-producing states. Although soybeans are highly sensitive to dicamba, the intensity of observed symptoms and yield losses are affected by the genetic background of genotypes. Thus, the objective of th...
