Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Grain yield"
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Breeding rice for grain yield, earliness and grain quality in Eastern Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Rice is one of the most important cereal crops in Eastern Africa and it’s often ranked after sorghum, wheat and maize. Unfortunately, rice yield per hectare is low (<3.6 t ha-1) because smallholder farmers rely on local ... -
Combining ability for grain yield and agronomic traits among early drought tolerant quality protein maize (QPM) inbred lines
(Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, 2008-07)Quality protein maize (QPM), a bio-fortified form of maize has twice the content of limiting amino acids, lysine and tryptophan, compared with conventional maize. It has been developed to, among other uses, help alleviate ... -
Improving sorghum cultivars for resistance to spotted stem borer (chilo partellus, swinhoe) and grain yield
(Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi, 2018)The objectives of this study were to (a) determine inheritance of resistance to Chilo partellus and other agronomic traits in sorghum and (b) Estimate the genetic variations, heritability and expected genetic advance for ...