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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
(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 ...