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A study of bruchid resistance and its inheritance in Malawian dry bean germplasm.
(2007)Dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is economically and nutritionally an important legume, not only in Malawi, but in many parts of Africa and Latin America. Unfortunately, two bruchid species (Acanthoscelides obtectus Say, ... -
Agronomic and quantitative trait loci analyses of yield and yield-related traits in pigeonpea.
(2017)Abstract available in PDF file. -
Assessment of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) for genetic diversity using agro-morphological traits and SSR markers.
(2019)Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) offers one of the cheapest sources of proteins and economic empowerment to smallholder farmers in Africa, contributing significantly to world production and trade. Thus, improved groundnut ... -
Assessment of maize germplasm lines for genetic diversity, cultivar superiority and combining ability.
(2012)Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important crop in the world; however, its yield is compromised by new production challenges leading to poor yield in sub-Saharan Africa. This calls for a need to enhance maize adaptation to changing ... -
Assessment of sweet sorghum lines for genetic diversity using quantitative traits and SSR markers.
(2016)The increase in energy demand, volatile oil prices and climate change has led South Africa to reduce its dependency on fossil fuels and promote biofuels. Sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] has been considered as ... -
Breeding and evaluation of cassava for high storage root yield and early bulking in Uganda.
(2013)Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), is the world’s most widely grown starch storage root crop. It is a principal food staple in sub-Saharan Africa where it accounts for approximately one-third of the total production of ... -
Breeding bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) for drought- tolerance in Ethiopia.
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.; 2n=6x=42; AABBDD) is one of the major staple cereal crops in the world. The demand for wheat has rapidly increased in sub-Saharan Africa including Ethiopia because of the growing population, ... -
Breeding cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) walp.) for improved drought tolerance in Mozambique
(2010)Cowpea yields in Mozambique can be increased through breeding farmers’ accepted cultivars with drought tolerance and stability across environments. A study was conducted in the southern region of Mozambique to: (1) determine ... -
Breeding cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp) for improved yield and related traits using gamma irradiation.
(2016)Cowpea is an important grain legume widely grown in sub-Saharan Africa for food and feed. In Namibia cowpea productivity is considerably low due to a wide array of abiotic and biotic stresses and socio-economic constrains. ... -
Breeding dual-purpose Sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] varieties in Rwanda.
(2017)Sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam] is a multi-purpose crop where the fresh roots are used for human food and aboveground biomass for animal feed. In Rwanda, sweetpotato plays a key role in the mixed crop-livestock ... -
Breeding for ascochyta blight [Phoma exigua var. diversispora (Bubak) Boerema] resistance of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Rwanda.
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Breeding for Cassava brown streak resistance in coastal Kenya.
(2008)Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz ssp. esculenta) is the second most important food crop and a main source of income for the rural communities with potential for industrial use in the coastal region of Kenya. However, its ... -
Breeding for durable resistance to angular leaf spot (Pseudocercospora griseola) in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in Kenya.
(2014)Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important legume crop in Kenya and is a cheap source of proteins. The small scale farmers in Kenya produce common bean under low agricultural input systems and this predisposes the ... -
Breeding for durable resistance to Cercospora Leaf Spot diseases in groundnuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Tanzania.
(2018)Lack of high yielding groundnut cultivars tolerant to Cercospora leaf spot disease (CLD) and stable across different environments is one of the challenges to groundnut production by smallholder farmers in Tanzania. This ... -
Breeding for resistance against angular leaf spot disease of common bean in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania.
(2016)Abstract available in PDF file. -
Breeding for resistance to rice yellow mottle virus and improved yield in rice (oryza sativa L.) in Tanzania.
(2020)Rice [Oryza sativa (L.), 2n = 2x = 24] is the second most important staple food crop after wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) serving more than half of the world’s population. In Tanzania, rice is the second most important ... -
Breeding gains diversity analysis and inheritance studies on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) germplasm in Zimbabwe.
(2013)The soybean programme in Zimbabwe is over seventy years old. However, there is lack of information on breeding gains, genetic diversity, heritability, genetic advance, combining ability, gene action and relationships ... -
Breeding groundnut (arachis hypogaea L.) for rust resistance in Tanzania.
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Breeding groundnut for resistance to rosette disease and its aphid vector, Aphis craccivora Koch in Malawi.
(2013)Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is one of the most important legume crops in Malawi. However, production among smallholder farmers has declined in recent years. One of the constraints affecting groundnut production is ... -
Breeding investigations and validation of molecular markers linked with spot blotch disease resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) germplasm for the rain-fed conditions of Zambia.
(2015)Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is an important cereal crop, second after maize in Zambia. Its production during summer rainy season is hampered by several abiotic and biotic constraints. Among the biotic constraints, spot ...