AFRICANCROPS.NET

A Website on Improvement

of African Crops and Seed Systems

Biotechnology, Breeding & Seed Systems for African Crops

An Activity of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Food Security Program

  Program-Funded Research on Maize (2000-2005)

• East African maize network travel workshop  Updated

• East African maize testing and seed multiplication  Updated

• Maize weevil project  Updated

• Maize disease resistance breeding in Malawi   Updated

• Multiplication of KSTP-94 Striga-resistant maize

• OPV maize breeding in Zimbabwe   Updated

• Phosphorous acquisition in maize and sorghum

• Public maize breeding in Mozambique   Updated

• SADLF drought-resistant maize seed component  Updated

• Striga resistance development in maize   Updated

• Crop protection compendium   Updated

• Drought tolerant maize via resurrection plant genes   Updated

• Molecular analysis of angular leaf spot pathogens  Updated

• Insect-resistant maize via transformation in Zimbabwe 

• Mapping genes for Striga resistance from diploperrenis   Updated

• Marker selection for maize streak virus resistance at KARI   Updated

• Regional maize disease breeding nursery   Updated

• Striga control via intercropping and mutation breeding   Updated

• Striga-resistant maize using wide cross materials

• Insect resistant maize in Uganda   Updated

• Marker assisted breeding for maize in Kenya   Updated

• African Maize Stress Project

• QPM maize for eastern and southern Africa

• Striga resistance from Tripsacum to maize   Updated

• Using molecular marker-assisted selection for quality protein maize trait and MSV resistance   Updated

• Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of Kenya's maize improvement program by utilizing both conventional and molecular breeding and to identify genes for resistance to fungal diseases of maize.     Updated

• Second phase of "coordinated ecosystem breeding", to generate maize varieties resistant to pests and diseases of maize found in particular agro-ecological zones of Kenya

• To develop and disseminate herbicide-resistant maize seed coated with specific herbicides that inhibit the growth of the parasitic weed Striga

• Towards the costs of on-farm testing and seed component of the Southern Africa Drought and Low Soil Fertility Network's Project to develop, and now disseminate, drought-tolerant varieties of maize.

• In support of research to be conducted in collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement centre on development of Insect-resistant maize for Africa.

• In support of research to be conducted by KARI-Katumani National Dry Farming Research Centre, to develop and test new maize varieties for the dry land and coastal areas of Kenya.

• To establish a plant genetic transformation facility for maize improvement in Kenya.

• To breed maize varieties resistant to gray leaf spot and northern leaf blight in the low and intermediate altitude areas of Tanzania.

• In support of research on the genetic improvement of maize to drought tolerance in South-western China, to be conducted by its Maize Research Institute.

• For introgression of Maize Streak Virus resistant genes into Kenyan high breed maize using DNA marker-assisted selection, to enable farmers who grow the hybrids to achieve higher yields.

• To develop African maize resistant to the parasitic weed Striga, collaboration project with the university of California, Davis.

• To develop African maize resistant to the parasitic weed Striga, in collaborative project with Kenyatta university.

• For the second phase of a project to strengthen maize seed production and distribution systems for small-scale farmers in Kenya and Uganda.

• For the costs of an international workshop for the foundation’s grantees in Africa and Asia working on new varieties of drought-tolerant maize and rice for use by smallholder farmers.

• 7th Eastern and Southern African Maize Conference

• Clonal maize propagation in Zimbabwe