Improved drought-tolerant maize hybrids would significantly reduce water consumption and increase yield in arid environments. Our knowledge about genetic parameters is very essential before starting a successful breeding program. The present research was carried out throughout three successive years between 2013-15 to reveal the pattern of inheritance in yield, yield-components and related...

the goal of  this paper is to investigate the solutionand stability in random normed spaces, in non--archimedean spacesand also in $p$--banach spaces and finally the stability using thealternative fixed point of generalized additive functions inseveral variables.

A new mixed-model method was developed for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) by incorporating multiple polygenic covariance structures. First, we used genome-wide markers to calculate six different kinship matrices. We then partitioned the total genetic variance into six variance components, one corresponding to each kinship matrix, including the additive, dominance, additive × additive, do...

maternal effects on body weight at 8 weeks of age (bw8w), egg weight (ew), egg number (en) and age at sexual maturity (asm) from 13 generations of mazandaran native fowl were investigated. the data were analyzed using restricted maximum likelihood procedures and animal model with dfreml software. with or without using maternal effects, six different animal models were fitted. likelihood ratio t...

This paper considers additive and purely additive spanners. We present a new purely additive spanner of size Õ(n) with additive stretch 4. This construction fills in the gap between the two existing constructions for purely additive spanners, one for 2-additive spanner of size O(n) and the other for 6-additive spanner of size O(n), and thus answers a main open question in this area. In addition...