Browsing by Subject "Maize"
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(2015-05-01)In order to gain a better understanding of the effects and amount of recombination that can be available to future plant breeding endeavors, a unique mapping population was created. A di-hybrid maize (Zea mays L.) cross ...
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(2020-04-22)Remote-sensing classification in agriculture provides advanced techniques for expanding the capacity of high-throughput phenotyping in plant breeding and optimizing field management in precision agriculture. Methods applied ...
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(2016-08-02)Anthracnose leaf blight (ALB) and Zebra Chip disease (ZC) represent serious threats to maize and Solanaceous crop production respectively. ALB control relies on resistant lines, but high genetic plasticity in the fungal ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Large scale and planned introduction of maize (Zea mays) in southern Africa was accomplished during the last 100 years. Since then, smallholder farmers and breeders have been selecting varieties best adapted to their ...
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(2020-07-23)This study was aimed at finding genetic markers or genes that are associated with ear traits important to maize by genome-wide association study (GWAS) based on the USDA maize GWAS panel consisting of diverse inbred lines ...
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(2017-12-11)Aflatoxins, produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, often contaminate preharvest maize (Zea mays L.) grain under heat and drought stresses, and pose serious health hazards to humans and livestock. Since 2003, a ...
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(2019-07-18)Unmanned aerial system (UAS) technologies are becoming common place within field-based agriculture programs allowing breeders to evaluate greater numbers of genotypes, reducing resource inputs and maintaining unbiased data ...
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(2012-07-16)Aflatoxins are potent carcinogens produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus Link:Fr and are a significant preharvest problem in maize production in Texas, the southern US, and subtropical climates. Several sources of maize ...
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(2012-02-14)Heterosis, or hybrid vigor, refers to the superiority of F₁hybrid performance over the mean of its parents (mid-parent heterosis) theoretically, or the performance of better parents. It has been discovered in many species ...
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(2009-05-15)Fusarium verticillioides (Sacc.) Nirenberg (teleomorph Gibberella moniliformis Wineland) is a fungal pathogen of maize that causes ear rots and stalk rots worldwide. In addition, it produces a group of mycotoxins called ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Sorghum downy mildew (SDM) of maize is caused by the oomycete Peronosclerospora sorghi (Weston and Uppal) C. G. Shaw. The disease can cause devastating yield losses in maize (Zea mays L.). Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) ...
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Quantitative trait loci analysis to identify modifiers genes of the gene opaque2 in maize endosperm (2009-05-15)The protein quality of maize can be improved by replacing normal Opaque2 alleles with non-functional recessive alleles opaque2 (o2). The allele o2 produces a severe phenotype with soft endosperm enhancing its protein quality ...
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(2021-07-07)Water is a limiting factor when growing maize especially in arid and semi-arid environments such as the Texas High Plains. Maize (Zea mays, L.) kernel set remains vulnerable to drought stress occurring at flowering, and ...
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(2018-05-01)Plant lipoxygenases (LOX) catalyze the production of oxylipins through the oxidization of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) that are important in plant development and defense. LOXs can be divided into two groups, depending ...