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Abstracts Home         Research in Genetic Improvement of Maize

 

Breeding for resistance to foliar diseases in Kenya: the case of maize streak virus disease

J. Ininda, L. Gichuru, P. Lorroki

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute  -NARC Muguga, Kenya

Application of marker-assisted breeding in more than one trait feasible?

J.W. Danson, J. Ininda

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya

Imidazolinone-resistant maize: a high-impact technology for Striga control

F. Kanampiu, A. Diallo, S. Mugo, N. Muchiri, J. Gressel

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Kenya

Development of ear rot and weevil-resistant maize varieties in Uganda

J. Imanywoha, G. Bigirwa, T. Kalule, M. Walusimbi

National Agricultural Research Organisation -Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute, Uganda

Morpho-agronomic diversity of maize varieties from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi

C. Magorokosho, M. Bänziger, F.J. Betrán

CIMMYT, Zimbabwe

Towards improved resistance to foliar diseases in Kenyan maize: progress in analysing and improving quantitative disease resistance

R.J. Nelson, J. Ininda, J. Danson, R.J. Wisser, Y. Wei, C-L. Chung, M. Smith

Cornell University, USA

Genetics and the relationship between yield stability and stress tolerance in regional maize germplasm

J. Derera, P. Tongoona, B. Vivek, W. de Milliano, M.D. Laing

ACCI PhD Student, Zimbabwe

Evaluation of yield potential and yield stability of three-way-cross and double-cross maize hybrids in Mozambique

P. Fato, P.S. Chauque, M. Denic, F.A. Amela, C. Senete

Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Agronomica Av. F.P.L.M, Mozambique

Use of diverse germplasm in breeding maize for resistance to Striga hermonthica

A. Menkir, B. Badu-Apraku, J.G. Kling, O. Ibikunle

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria

Coordinated ecosystem maize breeding in Kenya: divergent-convergent maize improvement approach with reference to biotic stress

O.M. Odongo, S.I. Ajanga, J. Ininda

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute -Kakamega , Kenya

Doubling yields? Using the forgotten half of our grain crops

J. Gressel, A. Zilberstein

Plant Sciences Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Progress in biotic research in maize

C.J.M. Mutinda, M. Gethi

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute-Embu, Kenya

Development of tropical maize varieties with low phytic acid to improve the nutritional status of poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa

P. Tongoona

Maize Breeding Project - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Marker-assisted selection for maize streak virus resistance in elite maize lines

G. Abalo, P. Tongoona, J. Imanywoha, K. Pixley, R. Edema

ACCI PhD Student c/o Makerere University Dept of Crop Science, Uganda

Combining ability and genetic diversity in tropical maize inbreds under both stress and optimal conditions

D. Makumbi, M. Bänziger, J-M. Ribaut, F.J. Betrán

Graduate Student, Texas A & M University, USA

Developing and screening (ecosystem breeding) ecologically adapted maize open-pollinated varieties in Zimbabwe

X. Mhike, D. Muungani, C. Mutimaamba, G. Masakwa

Ministry of Agriculture Dept of Agric Research and Extension, Zimbabwe

Regional Disease Nursery: a successful model for collaborative germplasm development

B. Vivek on behalf of REGNUR collaborators

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Zimbabwe

Maize ear rot incidence and associated mycotoxin contamination in Uganda

G. Bigirwa, G. Sseruwu, E. Adipala, E.N. Kaaya, J.S. Okanya

National Agricultural Research Organization / Namulonge Agricultural Research Institute, Uganda

Evaluation of selected maize varieties based on disease reaction, yield potential, flintiness and husk cover at nine sites in Malawi during the 2003/04 season

P.T. Khonje, N.D. Chikonda, C. Longwe

Ministry of Agriculture, Chitedze Research Stn, Malawi

Breeding maize varieties resistant to gray leaf spot and northern leaf blight in the low and intermediate altitude areas in Tanzania

C.Kuwite

Min of Agric and Food Security / Selian Agric Research Institute, Tanzania

Assessment of national plant breeding and biotechnology capacity in eastern and southern Africa

E.P. Guimarães, E. Kueneman

Plant Breeding - FAO Viale Delle Terre di Caracalla, Italy

 

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