Recurrent Selection and Participatory Plant Breeding for Improvement of Two Organic Open-Pollinated Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.) Populations

Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Irrigated Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.) and Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)

Intensive agriculture and increased N-fertilizer use have contributed to elevated emissions of the greenhouse gases, CO2, CH4, and N2O. In this study, the exchange of the greenhouse gases, CO2, N2O, and CH4, between a Quincy fine sand (mixed, mesic Xeric Torripsamments) soil and atmosphere was measured in a sweet corn (Zea mays L.) sweet corn potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) rotation during the 20...

Heterosis and Combining ability Studies for Sugar content in Sweet corn (Zea mays saccharata L.)

The present investigation has been undertaken in sweet corn to carry out the combining ability analysis and to estimate heterosis of yield and yield contributing characters. Eight divergent parents were selected and crossed in diallel fashion excluding reciprocals during kharif, 2010. The resulting 28 crosses along with parents and a standard check Sugar 75 and Madhuri were evaluated in Randomi...

Chemical Composition Profile of Canned and Frozen Sweet Corn (Zea mays L.) in Iran

Maize is one of the oldest and most productive popular grains and can be consumed as food at various developmental stages from baby corn to mature grain. The maize can be processed in different products at traditional level as well as industrial scale. Due to vast corn consumption by people in this research the concentration of histamine ,some trace and essential mineral and also heavy metals h...

Evaluation of selection indices for drought tolerance of corn (Zea mays L.) hybrids

Drought is one of the major problems affecting crops production, including corn, in many parts of Iran. In order to detect drought tolerant grain corn hybrids, an experiment with twenty corn hybrids was conducted during 2006 in Qom Province, Iran, using a complete randomized block design with four replications, under optimal moisture and drought stress condition. Results showed diversity among ...

POPULATION GENETICS OF INCREASED HYBRID PERFORMANCE BETWEEN TWO MAIZE (Zea mays L.) POPULATIONS UNDER RECIPROCAL RECURRENT SELECTION