The nutritional evaluation of quality protein maize (QPM) in feeding trials has proved its
nutritional superiority over non-QPM varieties for human and livestock consumption. The …

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is cultivated in many villages of DR Congo as a means to sustain food
security and alleviate poverty. However, the extent of the existing diversity has not been …

Major fraction (60%) of seed storage protein in maize is zein which determines the quality of
food and feed. Zeins comprise four subfamilies eg, α, β, γ and δ zeins. Among these, α-zeins …

Maize occupies an important position in the world economy, and serves as an important
source of food and feed. Together with rice and wheat, it provides at least 30 percent of the …

Maize being the third important cereal food crop next to rice and wheat; it seems to be a
good candidate for biofortification. Quality of food and feed depend on protein content and …

Materials and methods The current research was carried out to evaluate genetic diversity of
18 common bean cultivars and promising lines received from Khomein Bean Research …

Two elite normal maize inbreds that produced heterotic experimental hybrid (OML 17-3×
OML 42-9) with 45% yield advantage over the standard check Vivek QPM 9, were used for …

Twenty two inbreds of maize comprising ten OQL (Odisha QPM Lines), ten non-QPM and
two standard QPM inbreds (CML 176 and CML 186) were tested for crude protein …

Aims of the Study: This study was to determine the amino acid profile of two newly
developed quality protein maize varieties and to develop variety-diagnostic molecular …

Phylogenetic relationships between ten Hordeum vulgare L., seven cultivars (Giza 123, Giza
126, Giza 127, Giza 128, Giza 129, Giza 130 and Giza 2000) and three landraces from Sinai …