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Seed Potato Growth, Harvest Index and Net Economic Benefit Improvement through Irrigation Water, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Management
(Columbia International Publishing, 2016)
A study was conducted in a Rainshelter (RTrial) at Egerton University to determine the correlation between irrigation water, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) application on seed potato growth, harvest index (HI) and net ...
Participatory Germplasm Conservation and Seed Production of Naturalized Pumpkin Landraces in Kenya
(2016)
Although seeds come first in the food chain, local and international companies find it unprofitable to invest in provision of African indigenous vegetable seeds to growers. The present study trained farmers in on-farm ...
Evaluation of Quantitative Yield Performance of Pumpkin Accessions in Kenya Using Mother Trials
(2016)
Quantitative yield performance of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata (Lam.) Poir.) accessions was evaluated for two seasons in 2012 and 2013. Accessions were planted on-station in KALRO Kakamega and Embu farms at a spacing of 2 ...
Genetic variation of growth dynamics in maize (Zea mays L.) revealed through automated non-invasive phenotyping.
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017)
Hitherto, most quantitative trait loci of maize growth and biomass yield have been identified for a single time point, usually the final harvest stage. Through this approach cumulative effects are detected, without considering ...
Optimizing experimental procedures for quantitative evaluation of crop plant performance in high throughput phenotyping systems
(2015-01)
Abstract
Detailed and standardized protocols for plant cultivation in environmentally controlled conditions are an essential prerequisite to conduct reproducible experiments with precisely defined treatments. Setting up ...
Targeted sequencing reveals largscale sequence polymorphism in maize candidate genes for biomass production and composition PLoS ONE 10(7)
(2015-07-07)
Abstract
A major goal of maize genomic research is to identify sequence polymorphisms responsible for phenotypic variation in traits of economic importance. Large-scale detection of sequence variation is critical for ...
Towards a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Hybrid Performance Prediction from Large-Scale Phenotypic Data.
(2015-09)
High-throughput biological data analysis has received a large amount of interest in the last decade due to pioneering technologies that are able to automatically generate large-scale datasets by performing millions of ...
Performance of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Fed Diets Containing Blood Meal as a Replacement of Fish Meal
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2016)
Abstract
A 100 days experiment was conducted to determine the effect of feeding blood meal (BM) as a replacement of
fish meal (FM), as the main source of animal protein, on growth rate and economic performance of Nile ...
Phenomic prediction of maize hybrids.
(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2016-08)
Phenomic experiments are carried out in large-scale plant phenotyping facilities that acquire a large number of pictures of hundreds of plants simultaneously. With the aid of automated image processing, the data are converted ...
Optimizing the design of small-sized nucleus breeding programs for dairy cattle with minimal performance recording
(Elsevier, 2014)
7963J. Dairy Sci. 97 :7963–7974http://dx.doi.org/ 10.3168/jds.2014-8545 © American Dairy Science Association®, 2014 .ABSTRACT Dairy cattle breeding programs in developing coun-tries are constrained by minimal and ...