Maize (Zea maysL.), a major food crop worldwide, is susceptible toAspergillus flavusinfection followed by aflatoxin production, especially when the crop is stressed by environmental (abiotic) factors that favor mold growth (Fountain et al.2014). Colonization of maize kernels byA. flavusdiminishes ...
Maize Economy of Bihar, India: Agro- Climatic Zone Wise StudyPandey A
In India, pigmented maize is produced in several parts of the country which is utilized for food and feed purposes; therefore, not much attention has been paid to evaluate their nutritional potential. In the last few years, consumers' interest in pigmented whole grains has been growing rapidly ...
1). Agriculture is dominantly rain-fed in all three regions, but farmers use irrigation in pocket areas to produce vegetables. The rainfall is erratic and dry spells are common causing production shocks. The soils in northern Ghana have low fertility with organic matter content of < 20 g/kg,...
In the face of contemporary climatic vulnerabilities and escalating global temperatures, the prevalence of maydis leaf blight (MLB) poses a potential threat to maize production. This study endeavours to discern marker-trait associations and elucidate the
production to meet demand. With the aid of technology, the agriculture industry has made significant achievements. Farmers are having issues due to various conditions, including global climate change and plant diseases. Several causes for the decrease in crop yield result in the farmer’s economy. ...
Nearly 98 % of the pair-wise comparisons had a distance between 0.30 and 0.78, which indicates large genetic differences among most lines. The model-based population structure, principal coordinate and neighbor-joining cluster analyses revealed the presence of two to three groups, which is generally...
leading to overestimation of the variation found in natural conditions21. There is a deficit of large-scale field experiments that study species in the context of defined, variable growing conditions. Crop species grown in typical field production environments can provide such an experimental structure...
Whereas previous studies that quantify VW flows related to trade in pork consider the full amount of embodied water in traded pork, we are interested here only in the maize-related embodied water in traded pork. We first estimate the green and blue WFs of maize production in China per year ...
Maize, as a thermophilic plant, is used in many studies as a model crop to show the effects of climate change on land suitability [4,6,7,8]. In previous studies it has been shown that the expected temperature increase would improve conditions for maize production in Poland [9], which se...