Salinity critically limits rice metabolism, growth, and productivity worldwide. Improvement of the salt resistance of locally grown high-yielding cultivars is a slow process. The objective of …
Maize will continue to expand and diversify as an industrial resource and a feed and fuel crop in the near future. The United Nations estimate that in 2050 the global population will …
Multi-environmental yield trial is very vital in assessing newly developed rice lines for its adaptability and stability across environments especially prior to release of the newly …
Bacterial leaf blight caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae (Xoo) and blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae are major diseases responsible for significant yield loss in rice …
RO Magwanga, P Lu, JN Kirungu, L Diouf… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cotton production is on the decline due to ever-changing environmental conditions. Drought and salinity stress contribute to over 30% of total loss in cotton production, the situation has …
MS Kim, JY Yang, JK Yu, Y Lee, YJ Park, KK Kang… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The primary goals of rice breeding programs are grain quality and yield potential improvement. With the high demand for rice varieties of premium cooking and eating quality …
This experiment was conducted to genotypically and phenotypically select new rice lines pyramided with blast and bacterial leaf blight disease resistance genes after a marker …
Rice blast and bacterial blight diseases are the global threat for rice production. To develop blast and bacterial blight resistant lines, two blast resistance genes (Pi9 and Pb1) and three …
The most vital aspect of marker-assisted backcross breeding is the recurrent parent genome recovery. This enables the selection of only parents with recovered recipient/recurrent …