Maize Seed
Small-Scale Maize Seed Production in West and Central Africa: Profitability, Constraints and Options
... Abstract: Seed plays a critical role in increasing agricultural productivity. Seed has been described as an essential, strategic, and relatively inexpensive input that often determines the upper limit of ...
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Determinants of maize seed income and adoption of foundation seed production: evidence from Palpa District of Nepal
... to those who did not receive and was found statistically significant at the 5% level of significance. Access to exten- sion service helps to increase the technical knowledge and information about better practices. ...
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Optimization design and experiment on ripple surface type pickup finger of precision maize seed metering device
... of maize seeds in different types, analyzed gestures of seeds clamped by pickup finger, and established clamping dynamical model of pickup ...precision maize seed metering device was established by ...
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Integrating structure conduct and performance framework for maize seed value chain analysis in western Nepal
... the seed producers are small holders and residing in poverty prone ...in maize seed production has contributed in poverty reduction to some ...in seed production produced 85 mt of improved ...
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Measurement and analysis of restitution coefficient between maize seed and soil based on high-speed photography
... of maize seed in the falling and impacting processes was developed to measure the restitution coefficient between maize seed and ...impacting maize seed were measured and ...
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Amelioration of Salinity Stress in Maize Seed Germination and Seedling Growth Attributes through Seed Priming
... by seed treatment with different osmotic solution (inorganic salts, sugars, growth regu- lators and polyethylene glycol) known as seed ...etc.), seed ac- celeration (priming with plant growth ...
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Fast-Flowering Mini-Maize: Seed to Seed in 60 Days
... maintenance. Maize began its use for genetic analysis before the concept of model organisms ...in maize landraces can vary from 2 to 11 months, and height can vary from 1 to 7 m (Kuleshov 1933), opening the ...
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... of seed spacing without a significant loss in yield [9, 10]. Mass flow seed metering systems are used on planters generally referred to as broadcast, drill and air seeders and can be broadly classified as ...
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A Study on Maize Production in Samastipur (Bihar): An Empirical Analysis
... grown maize crop and their full adoption of hybrid maize seed was 3, 33 and 0 respectively by small ...growing maize out of which 1, 37 and 6 were found full adoption of hybrid seed of ...
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Maternal Gametophyte Effects on Seed Development in Maize
... the maize seed after fertilization (Weatherwax 1926; Randolph ...on seed de- velopment can be distinguished based on their mode of in- heritance: those in genes required in the maternal sporophyte ...
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Effect of Different Amounts of Nitrogen Fertilizer on Grain Yield of Forage Corn Cultivars in Isfahan
... of seed per row, number of grains per maize, seed weight and seed yield were ...of seed number per row and number of seeds per ear, more grain yield was ...of seed per rows and ...
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Sustainability of food production support services offered by Sustainable Agriculture Trust to subsistence farmers in Bikita District, Zimbabwe
... All respondents (32) indicated that support from SAT involves the provision of input support and training in CF. On input support, respondents singled out that each household receives 10 kg of the ZM421 maize ...
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SPEL/EU data User manual Revised version, April 1995
... Grain maize, organic potassic Grain maize, production adjustments EAA Gross production; grain maize Grain maize, overheads repairs Grain maize, variable costs repairs Grain maize, seed G[r] ...
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Effects of Dry Seed Treatment on Various Quality Characters in Maize (Zea mays L.)
... The role of natural plant preparations could also be due to reduced lipid peroxidation because volatile aldehyde production was lower in seeds treated with chemicals and plant preparations than in control. Our results ...
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Whole-Genome Analysis of Candidate genes Associated with Seed Size and Weight in Sorghum bicolor Reveals Signatures of Artificial Selection and Insights into Parallel Domestication in Cereal Crops
... and seed weight are major quality attributes and important determinants of yield that have been strongly selected for during crop ...with seed size and weight in ...on seed size and weight in other ...
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Access to improved seeds and its effect on food security of poor farmers
... this seed access project has had significant impacts in the lives of the beneficiaries of the two ...of seed beneficiaries has been ...took maize and haricot bean seeds have earned income and started ...
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Peculiarities of feed contamination with citrinin and ochratoxin A
... and maize grain, wheat bran, soy-bean and sunflower seed meal and cakes, maize “gluten”, com- pound feeds) were submitted to our Institute in 2003- 2009 from poultry and pig farms in Russia either in ...
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MINIATURE SEEDA STUDY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DEFECTIVE CARYOPSIS IN MAIZE
... Sections from seeds in the completely incompatible cross Nicotiana rustica X Nicotiana glutinosa and from the highly sterile cross Nicotiana rustica X Nicotiana ta- b[r] ...
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33. Varietal susceptibility on maize varieties against flour beetles (Tribolium casteneum and Tribolium confusum)
... The maize is rich in nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and fats ...of maize varieties in many areas of Hyderabad, Sindh ...on maize varieties against the flour ...softness, ...
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Seed Quality of Maize with Polymer Film Coating in Storage
... of maize (variety MH-7) were obtained from the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SHIATS, ...the maize seeds were well dried before storage and treated with polymer @ 3, 6 and 9 ml per kg of ...
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