Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most important cereal crop on which many smallholder farmers in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) depend as a sole source of calories, proteins, and vitamins. However, conventional maize deficient two essential amino acids, lysine, tryptophan. Thereafter, Quality Protein (QPM) developed to combat protein malnutrition. In SSA low soil nitrogen also limiting factor production pro...

Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of night blindness, total maternal and childhood mortality in developing countries. Drought, low soil nitrogen Striga hermonthica parasitism are major constraints to maize production sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Thus, development multiple stress tolerant varieties with elevated levels PVA an economically feasible approach simultaneously tackle malnutrition...

In this paper we introduce the class of additive normal form games, which is a subset of normal form games. In additive normal form games, the actions of each agent contribute some amount to the final payoff of all the agents. The contributions of the agents are assumed to be additive. We discuss the necessary and sufficient conditions for a normal form game to be an additive normal form game a...

Mycotoxins severely threaten the health of humans and animals. For this reason, many countries have enforced regulations and recommendations to reduce the dietary exposure. However, even though regulatory actions must be based on solid scientific knowledge, many aspects of their toxicological activity are still poorly understood. In particular, deepening knowledge on the primal molecular events...

due to cereal are affected by drought stress in their lifetime. in order to study gene action of bread wheat under drought stress condition, a generation mean analysis was performed using f1, f2 and f3 generations derived from roushan and kavir. generation mean analysis was performed based on joint scaling test. genetic parameters including additive effect (d), dominance effect (h), additive×ad...

Genetic evaluation of segregating populations is one the primary activities cotton breeders. Seven genotypes were crossed in a line ? tester mating design. The population 12 F1, F2 and their parents tested Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications at Nazilli Cotton Research Institute T?rkiye during 2014/2015 cotton-growing season. genetic variability was significant for all chara...

     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...

this experiment was conducted to determine gene action for different traits of chickpea including days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height, 100-seeds weight, number of pods per plant and seed yield. five genotypes including arman, hashem, ilc588, iccv2 and ilc3279 were selected and crossed with each other. four generations of each cross along with parents were evaluated in a random...