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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 and heterotic grouping of early maturing maize lines
(2011)
Maize is the main staple food in sub Saharan Africa, but its productivity is often
inadequate on account of many production constraints. Amongst these is drought that
causes on average an annual grain yield reduction of ...