Zea mays
Heterosis analysis for grain yield traits in Maize (Zea mays L.)
... Few agronomic improvements during the 20 th century rival the development of hybrid maize (Zea mays L.) Duvick (2001). Yields increased dramatically as breeders moved away from open-pollinating cultivars ...
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Impact of salt stress on morphological and biochemical parameters of Zea mays
... Zea mays leaves showed a decrease in soluble protein contents under NaCl stress. The maximum decrease was found at 100 mM concentration. Chen et al. (2007) studied the effect of salt stress in Vigna ...
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Stability Analysis for Quality Traits in Maize (Zea mays L.)
... Maize (Zea mays L.; 2n=20) is one of the most important cereal crops as a food for human being and a feed for animals. There is no cereal on the earth, which has such an immense potential as maize and ...
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Nascent Transcription Affected by RNA Polymerase IV in Zea mays
... unknown. Zea mays (maize) RNA polymerase D1 (RPD1), the largest subunit of RNA polymerase IV (Pol IV), is required for normal plant development, paramutation, transcriptional repression of certain ...
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Rmr6 Maintains Meiotic Inheritance of Paramutant States in Zea mays
... Paramutation generates heritable changes affecting regulation of specific alleles found at several Zea mays (maize) loci that encode transcriptional regulators of anthocyanin biosynthetic genes. Although ...
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Anti inflammatory effects of Zea mays L husk extracts
... Background: Zea mays L. ( Z. mays ) has been used for human consumption in the various forms of meal, cooking oil, thickener in sauces and puddings, sweetener in processed food and beverage products, ...
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Patterns of Diversity and Recombination Along Chromosome 1 of Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.)
... We investigate the interplay between genetic diversity and recombination in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays). Genetic diversity was measured in three types of markers: single-nucleotide polymorphisms, ...
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Performance Of Zea Mays On Soil Contaminated With Petroleum (Oily) Sludge
... of Zea mays on soil contaminated with petroleum (oily) sludge was carried out using petroleum sludge sample from Kolocreek Rig in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State of ...of Zea mays (p > ...
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PROTEOLYTIC RESPONSE OF ZEA MAYS L. HYBRIDS TO CITRIC ACIDTREATMENT
... Abstract: Hybrids of Zea mays L. (Buffalo, Falcon, H360 y HV313) were treated with citric acid (2000 ppm). The grain yield, the soluble protein and the proteolytic activity were monitored in the ...
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GROWTH RESPONSE OF MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.) TO METAL TOXICITY
... for all treated plants (P< 0.05) when com- pared with the untreated plants (control). The dry weights of all treated plants were affected significantly at all concentrations. Statistical analysis showed that higher ...
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Diallel Cross of Six InbredWaxy Corn (Zea mays L.)
... The waxy corn, Zea mays L. which has relatively low productivity can be improved by assembling hybrid and synthetic corn genotypes. The important thing to know is information about the combining ability of ...
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Effect of Municipal Solid Waste on the Growth of Maize (Zea Mays L.)
... A pot experiment was conducted in the green house to determine the effect of municipal solid waste on the growth of maize (zea mays). Growth parameters of percentage emergence, plant height, leaf area and ...
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Proteomic analysis of heat shock proteins in maize (Zea mays L.)
... An Egyptian inbred line of maize ( Zea mays L.) “K1” was used in this study which was developed by the plant breeding group, Genetic and Cytology Department, Na- tional Research Centre, Giza, Egypt. The ...
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ANTIMALARIAL AND ANTIPYRETIC ACTIVITIES OF CORNSILK EXTRACT AND FRACTIONS OF ZEA MAYS
... Zea mays L.(Poacae) also known as maize or corn, is an annual grass plant cultivated through Nigeria primarily for human consumption and as animal feed. The plant is tall with a fibrous root system and has ...
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Molecular characterisation of Maize [ Zea mays (L.)] germplasm accessions
... Maize [Zea mays (L.)] is the third most important food crop next to Rice and Wheat. About 66 per cent of the maize produced in the world is used as feed, 17 per cent as food and as industrial product and ...
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Breeding for Drought Tolerance in Maize (Zea mays L )
... Drought, like many other environmental stresses, has adverse effects on crop yield including maize ( Zea mays L.). Low water availability is one of the major causes for maize yield reductions affecting the ...
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Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation of Maize (Zea mays L.)
... Four inbred lines (S61, B73, Mo17 and A188) and two hybrid genotypes (HiIIB and HiIIC) of Zea mays supplied by ABRII (Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran). Ears harvested 8-13 days after ...
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Endophytes in maize (Zea mays) in New Zealand
... The aim of this study was to isolate fungal endophytes from maize in New Zealand (NZ) and to select endophytes with potential to reduce insect pests and/or plant diseases. Culture methods were used to isolate 322 ...
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Association mapping of major starch biosynthesis genes in Zea mays ssp. mays.
... Maize is both phenotypically and genetically diverse. Sequence studies generally confirm the extensive genetic variability in modern maize is consistent with a lack of selection. For more than 6000 years, Native ...
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Population Genetics of Duplicated Disease-Defense Genes, hm1 and hm2, in Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) and Its Wild Ancestor (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis)
... Plant defense genes are subject to nonneutral evolutionary dynamics. Here we investigate the evolutionary dynamics of the duplicated defense genes hm1 and hm2 in maize and its wild ancestor Zea mays ssp. ...
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