Teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize, has three times the seed protein content of most modern maize strains. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters tracked down the mechanisms ...
Because Kenya’s agriculture is rain-fed, local breeders for maize seeds mould their research to fit into rain patterns in various parts of the country. For this reason, breeders concentrate ...
Researchers identified a maize mutant, ven2, with impaired sucrose metabolism, leading to changes in protein accumulation. The study highlights the role of the transcription factor SRF1 in translating ...
You can feel Rose Akinyi Otieno's excitement as she walks other farmers through her maize farm. Initially, it is difficult to understand her excitement. Unlike many farms in Gongo, Rangwe Division, ...
The cold and radical emergence tests have been proposed by AOSA and ISTA, respectively, as standard vigor tests for maize. However, several studies indicated that these methods were not suitable for ...
Mitochondrial respiration depends on proteins encoded by the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. Many respiratory chain-related proteins are encoded by the mitochondrial genome and undergo translation ...
Phangyul farmers in Wangdue Phodrang are now growing maize as an alternative cash crop. Phangyuel Gewog Administration says ...
The announcement is part of a larger agricultural program dubbed "Sin maíz no hay país," which aims to support corn producers ...
Helen Anne Curry receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Last summer I grew three varieties of corn in my tiny garden. I knew from the start that my harvest, if any, would be meagre. The plants ...
Maize is a staple crop and a cornerstone of livelihoods. Therefore, understanding the rhythm of the seasons is paramount. The difference between a bountiful harvest and a devastating loss often comes ...
AN AIR OF Malthusian gloom hangs over smallhold farmers in Sironko, in eastern Uganda. In the old days, they say, their parents reaped plentiful harvests from fields fed with manure. Now the soil ...
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