Recent Online Publications

Derera, J., Tongoona, P., Vivek, B.S., van Rij, N. and Laing, M.D. 2007. Gene action determining Phaeosphaeria leaf spot disease resistance in experimental maize hybrids. S. Afr. J. Plant Soil 2007, 24(3): 138-144.

Derera, J., Tongoona, P., Vivek, B.S. and Laing, M.D. 2007. 2007. Gene action controlling grain yield and secondary traits in southern African maize hybrids under drought and non-drought environments. Euphytica, 10 pp.

Bänziger, M., G.O. Edmeades, D. Beck, and M. Bellon. 2000. Breeding for Drought and Nitrogen Stress Tolerance in Maize: From Theory to Practice. CIMMYT, Mexico, D.F.

Bänziger M., and M.E. Cooper, 2001. Breeding for low-input conditions and consequences for participatory plant breeding - examples from tropical maize and wheat. Euphytica 122: 503-519.

Betrán, F.J., Ribaut,  J. M., Beck,  D. and Gonzalez de León,  D. 2003. Genetic Diversity, Specific Combining Ability, and Heterosis in Tropical Maize under Stress and Nonstress Environments. Crop Sci 43:797-806

Betrán, F.J., Beck, D., Bänziger, M. and Edmeades, G. 2003. Genetic analysis of inbred and hybrid grain yield under stress and non-stress environments in tropical maize. Crop Sci 43:807-817.

Deera, J., Pixley, K.V. and Giga, D.P. 2001.  Resistance of maize to the maize weevil: I. Antibiosis. African Crop Science Journal 9, 2:431-440, 2001.

Deera, J., Giga, D.P. and Pixley, K.V. 2001. Resistance of maize to the maize weevil: II. Non-preference. African Crop Science Journal 9, 2:431-440, 2001: II. 

DeVries, J., Mwaura, F.M.  and Woomer, P.L. 2002. Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops: Research and Product Development that Reaches Farmers. Programme and Abstracts for the First General Meeting of Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops. The Rockefeller Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.

Gressel, J. et al. 2004. Major heretofore intractable biotic constraints to African food security that may be amenable to biotechnological solution. Crop Protection 23: 661–689

Gurney, A.L., Grimanelli, D., Kanapmiu, F., Hoisington, D., Scholes, J.D. and Press, M.C. 2003. Novel sources of resistance to Striga hermonthica in Tripsacum dactyloides, a wild relative of maize. New Phytologist 160: 557-568

Gwata, E. T., Wofford,  D. S., Boote, K. J., Blount,  A. R. and Pfahler, P. L. 2005. Inheritance of Promiscuous Nodulation in Soybean. Crop Science 45:635-648

Kanampiu, F.K., Ransom, J.K.  and Gressel, J. 2001. Imazapyr seed dressings for Striga control on acetolactate synthase target-site resistant maize. Crop Protection 20: 885–895

Kanampiu, F.K. and Friesen, D. 2003. A new approach to striga control. Pesticide Outlook April Issue pp51-53.

Kanampiu, F.K., Kabambe, V., Massawe, C., Jasi, L., Friesen, D., Ransom, J.K. and Gressel, J. 2003. Multi-site, multi-season field tests demonstrate that herbicide seed-coatin herbicide-resistance maize controls Striga spp. and increases yields in several African countries. Crop Protection 22: 697–7 6

Kanampiu, F.K., Ransom, J.K., Friesen, D. and Gressel, J. 2002. Imazapyr and pyrithiobac movement in soil and from maize seed coats to control Striga in leg me intercropping. Crop Protection 21: 611–619

Kanampiu, F.K., Ransom, J.K., Gressel, J., Friesen, D., Grimanelli, D. and Hoisington, D. 2002. Appropriateness of biotechnology to African agriculture: Striga and maize as paradigms. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 69: 105–110.

Khan, Z. R., Hassanali, A., Overholt,  W., Khamis,  T. M., Hooper,  A.M., Pickett, J. A., Wadhams, L.J. and Woodcock, C. M. 2002. Control of the witchweed Striga hermonthica by intercropping with Desmodium uncinatum spp., and the mechanism defined as allelopathic. J. Chem. Ecol. 28:1871-1885. 

Okogbenin, E. and Fregene, M. 2003. Genetic mapping of QTLs affecting productivity and plant architecture in a full-sib cross from non-inbred parents in Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Theor Appl Genet 107:1452–1462

Popelka, J.C., Terryn, N. and Higgins, T.J.V. 2004. Gene technology for grain legumes: Can it contribute to the food challenge in developing countries? Plant Science 167: 195–206

Vain, P,  Afolabi, A.S., Worland, B. and Snape, J.W. 2003. Trangene behaviour in populations of transformed plants using a new dual binary vector system: pGreen / pSoup  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 107 (2) 210-2173

Ribaut, J.-M., Banziger, M. and Hoisington, D. 2002. Genetic dissection and plant improvement under abiotic stress conditions: drought tolerance in maize as an example. JIRCAS Working Report (2002) 85-92.

Online conference proceedings

Murdock, L. 2001. Proceedings of the Dakar Workshop on Genetic Improvement of Cowpea. January 8-12, 2001. Purdue University, USA. 57 pp.

Other Publications

Bänziger, M., G.O. Edmeades, and H.R. Lafitte. 2002. Physiological mechanisms contributing to the increased N stress tolerance of tropical maize selected for drought tolerance. Field Crops Res. 75: 223-233.