Browsing Graduate and Professional School by Subject "Zea mays"
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(2022-06-13)Drought, insect pests, and diseases pose serious threats to maize production globally. Risks associated with drought are being addressed through the constant breeding of new drought-tolerant maize cultivars. However, under ...
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(2016-05-09)Maize is a leading food, feed and bioenergy crop in the U.S. and the world, while grain yield is the most important to all cereals, including maize, wheat, rice and sorghum. Since genes are the keys to comprehensively ...
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(2013-01-22)A suite of plants from the maize genus Zea L. (Poaceae) and the specialist herbivore Dalbulus maidis (DeLong and Wolcott, 1923) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) were used to test the hypotheses that anti-herbivore defenses are ...
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(2020-07-24)The filamentous fungus, Trichoderma virens, is a well-known mycoparasitic plant symbiont, valued for its biocontrol capabilities. T. virens initiates a symbiotic relationship with a plant host through the colonization of ...