Aim: Combining ability studies in popcorn to identify superior parents for commercial hybrid breeding. Study Design: line x tester mating fashion. Place and Duration of Study: MRC, PJTSAU, Rajendranagar Hyderabad, between 2023-2024. Methodology: Popcorn (Zea mays var. everta) is...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i82275
Maize is one among those crops privileged with rich genetic diversity; however the currently cultivated hybrids barely represent this scale of variability as they are developed from more or less genetically similar lines. Tad changes in environmental factors can fail today’s hybr...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i82796
In the present challenging scenario of climate change, it is essential to breed maize cultivars that withstand stress especially abiotic stresses in a broader sense. Diversification of existing germplasm is invariable to harness the actual potential of maize hybrids which are bre...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i82277
Although global maize breeding programmes are in momentum with high number of superior hybrids releasing annually, the full potential of hybrids is seldom achieved in real time due to various biotic and abiotic stresses. It is pertinent to broaden the diversity of available germp...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i224175
Aim: To study the grain yield performance of early maturity maize hybrid under rainfed conditions in relation to row arrangement, plant geometry and mulching. Place of Study: A field experiment was conducted at Agricultural research station, Karimnagar during kharif 2011-12. Meth...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i330386
Salt stress adversely affects plant growth and development. Various strategies have been employed to enhance the production and productivity of plants to salt stress. Expression of complex traits like yield is the result of interaction of several yield contributing fea...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2025/v47i33348
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important staple food crops in the world because more than half of the world's population depends on rice for their livelihood. By 2050, the world's rice productivity will need to double in order to keep up with population growth. Narrow...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i101524