December 2012 – Page 2 – CIMMYT knowledge center blog

Properties and nematicide performance of avermectins

Written on December 4, 2012. Posted in Journal Articles.

Published in Journal of Phytopathology, 2012 Jose Alfonso Cabrera, Roy D. Menjivar, Abd el-Fattah A. Dababat and Richard A. Sikora In 1979, the anthelmintic activity of abamectin, a mixture of avermectins B1a and B1b, was first reported. Since then, multiple articles have investigated avermectins’...

The screening of wheat germplasm for resistance to stripe and leaf rust in Kazakhstan using molecular markers

Written on December 4, 2012. Posted in Journal Articles.

Published in Journal of Life Sciences 6 (9) : 353-362, 2012 A. Kokhmetova, G. Yessenbekova, A.I. Morgounov and F. Ogbonnaya Resistance to stripe and leaf rusts is the most important objectives in Kazakhstan, and they are the major factor that adversely affects wheat yield and quality and finally causes...

Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux

Written on December 4, 2012. Posted in Journal Articles.

Published in Nature Genetics 44 (7) : 803-807, 2012 Jer-Ming Chia, Chi Song, Peter J Bradbury, Denise Costich, Natalia de Leon, John Doebley, Robert J Elshire, Brandon Gaut, Laura Geller, Jeffrey C Glaubitz, Michael Gore, Kate E Guill, Jim Holland, Matthew B Hufford, Jinsheng Lai, Meng Li, Xin Liu,...

Development of the conservation agriculture equipment industry in Sub-saharan Africa

Written on December 4, 2012. Posted in Journal Articles.

Published in Applied Engineering in Agriculture 28 (6) : 1-11, 2012 B.G. Sims, C. Thierfelder, J. Kienzle, T. Friedrich and A. Kassam Smallholder farm mechanization in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) relies heavily on manual labour and the hand hoe is the main implement used for crop production on up to...

Accelerated development of quality protein maize hybrid through marker-assisted introgression of opaque-2 allele

Written on December 4, 2012. Posted in Journal Articles.

Published in Plant Breeding, 2012 Hari S. Gupta, Babu Raman, Pawan K. Agrawal, Vinay Mahajan, Firoz Hossain and Nepolean Thirunavukkarasu Vivek Maize Hybrid 9- a popular single-cross hybrid developed by crossing CM 212 and CM 145 was released for commercial cultivation in India. The parental lines,...

Month: December 2012

Properties and nematicide performance of avermectins

The screening of wheat germplasm for resistance to stripe and leaf rust in Kazakhstan using molecular markers

Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux

Development of the conservation agriculture equipment industry in Sub-saharan Africa

Accelerated development of quality protein maize hybrid through marker-assisted introgression of opaque-2 allele