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566) The draft genomes of five agriculturally important African orphan crops
The expanding world population is expected to double the worldwide demand for food by 2050. Eighty-eight percent of countries currently face a serious burden of malnutrition, especially in Africa and south and southeast Asia. About 95% of the food energy needs of humans are fulfilled by just 30 species,...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
567) Point placement of late vegetative stage nitrogen splits increase the productivity, N-use efficiency and profitability of tropical maize under decade long conservation agriculture
The rising economic and environmental costs of mineral fertilizers associated with lower nutrient use efficiency, and the need to respond the limitations of N fertilization under residue retained condition of conservation agriculture (CA) motivate the research for alternative N placement methods....
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2022
568) Crop wild relatives: know how past and present to improve future research, conservation and utilization strategies, especially in Italy: a review
Crop wild relatives (CWR) have contributed to crop domestication for millennia, but nowadays due also to human overexploitation of plants and other environmental resources they are threatened and hence they need protection to guarantee plant evolution and food supply for future human generations. At...
Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2020
569) CIMMYT's MAIZE project Annual Report 2019
The 2019 Annual Report by CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) highlights their great advances in the development of improved stress-tolerant maize varieties, with enhanced genetic gain and novel genetic diversity and tools. CGIAR's national partners and seed companies across Africa, Latin America...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia
Publication year: 2020
570) Learning from farmers to improve sorghum breeding objectives and adoption in Mali
Many efforts have been made to improve sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] varieties, but adoption of improved varieties remains low. Sorghum has diverse panicle architecture and grain qualities that vary within and between races, and utilization and adoption may depend on these traits. Recent efforts...
Subject: Plant breeding techniques and approaches
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2018