Furthermore, Kumar and Jhariya (Kumar et al., 2011) mentioned that potassium is a significant nutrient present in maize kernel, as it is low in the usual human diet. Nearly 1400 kcal/100 g (dry basis) of energy is provided by maize, which is sufficient to sustain the balance (Isabi...
The productivity of maize is largely dependent on its nutrient management. Maize is one such crop which provides opportunity for inclusion of intercrop because of the wide row space provided to the crop and also because of the plasticity of the crop to row spacing. In recent years, vegetables...
It is also rich in nutritional fiber and calories, including fiber (8.5%), oil (4.8%), sugar (3.0%) and ash (1.7%) (Mboyal, 2011; Oyewole et al., 2020). Corn has more calories than rice (16.5 %) and wheat (15 %). It supplies an energy density of 365 Kcal/100g (Ranum...
26. The over-reliance on a single crop plant in monoculture systems can lead to insect-pest outbreaks, soil nutrient imbalances, and reduced resilience to ecological stressors. Understanding
However, the iron content in maize kernels is generally negatively correlated with yield, which greatly limits the cultivation of new maize varieties that are both high-yield and iron rich, he said. The process of iron loading into maize kernels has always been an unresolved issue, so the new...
Roots play an essential role in plant water acquisition from the soil and are the gate-way for plant water and nutrient supply [2, 10–15]. Root water uptake is used to optimize irrigation and fertilizer application [13, 15]. Generally, water uptake by roots is primarily controlled by ...
At the beginning and end of the experiment, a random portion of insects receiving a PBS-glycerol mock inoculation were assessed for their axenic status by plating onto nutrient-rich yeast tryptone medium. Additionally, a portion of the gamma-irradiated plant tissues were tested for bacteria by ...
During the winter feeding period in organic dairy production systems in the alpine and pre-alpine regions of Austria and its neighboring countries, maize silage is an energy-rich forage that is regularly included in grass-silage-based diets to improve the energy supply of the cows. Italian ryegra...
The Maternally expressed gene (Meg) family is a locally-duplicated gene family of maize which encodes cysteine-rich proteins (CRPs). The founding member of the family, Meg1, is required for normal development of the basal endosperm transfer cell layer (B
These methods use a variety of approaches such as delivering into the plant a gene encoding a cytotoxic substance associated with a male tissue specific promoter or an antisense system in which a gene critical to fertility is identified and an antisense to that gene is inserted in the plant (...