Effects of grain species and grain processing method on DMI, rate and efficiency of gain, and feeding value for cattle fed high concentrate diets were appraised by statistically compiling results from 605 comparisons from feeding trials published in North American journals and experiment station bulletins since 1974. Metabolizable energy (ME) values for each grain and processing method were cal...

Field experiment was conducted at KPK Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan to find out the effect of planting methods on the yield and yield components of maize varieties. Analysis of the data revealed that planting methods had a significant effect on days to tasseling, days to silking, plant height, number of plants ha at harvest, thousand grain weight, grain yield, biological yield, fr...

The epidemiological data that directly examine whole grain v. refined grain intake in relation to weight gain are sparse. However, recently reported studies offer insight into the potential role that whole grains may play in body-weight regulation due to the effects that the components of whole grains have on hormonal factors, satiety and satiation. In both clinical trials and observational stu...

Mining elite alleles for grain size and weight is of importance for the improvement of cultivated rice and selection for market demand. In this study, association mapping for grain traits was performed on a selected sample of 628 rice cultivars using 262 SSRs. Grain traits were evaluated by grain length (GL), grain width (GW), grain thickness (GT), grain length to width ratio (GL/GW), and 1000-...

Grain weight is a major determinant of grain yield. GS5 is a positive regulator of grain size such that grain width, filling, and weight are correlated with its expression level. Previous work suggested that polymorphisms of GS5 in the promoter region might be responsible for the variation in grain size. In this study, two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between the wide-grain allele GS5...

abstract in order to genetic investigation of drought resistance indices, on 25 maize inbred lines, an experiment was conducted under three irrigation regimes; normal irrigation, limited vegetative irrigation and limited reproductive irrigation. in the limited vegetative irrigation, tol (stress tolerance) index had the highest phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation (83.83% and 68.04%...

this project was conducted to evaluation the effects of replacement of barley grain with corn grain on fatteningperformance of male lambs. twenty five male lambs (6-7 month-old, average body weight = 31.22 ± 3.4 kg) were assigned randomly to five dietary treatments (5 lambs/treatment) in a randomized complete design. the first diet contained barley grain without corn grain but in the other diet...

Grain size is one of the most important factors determining rice yield. Several major QTLs for grain size control have been molecular characterized, and their roles in the regulation of grain size or weight have been explored but still remained obscure. In this study, we systematically examined the distributions of GW2, GS3, qSW5, qGL3, GS5, GW8, and TGW6 in 240 RIL of TD70 and Kasalath, compar...

The paper examines the relationship between China's grain trade and domestic grain economy through an institutional perspective. It reveals that China's grain imports have been primarily necessitated by filling the physical gap between domestic grain demand and supply. Due to the special institutional background under which the domestic grain economy segmented into two relatively independent pa...

in order to study of variation and relationships between morphological traits with yield and its components in three grain sorghum cultivars (kimia, sepideh and payam) and nine promising lines (mgs1-mgs9) received from seed and plant improvement institute, an experiment was conducted as randomized complete block design with four replications in birjand agricultural research station, in two grow...