Bananas and plantains belong to the family Musaceae and are cultivated throughout the humid tropics and sub-tropics. This crop is perennial with a faster relative growth rate compared to other fruit crops, while producing fruit all year round. Because of their nutritional value, bananas and plantains are considered the fourth most important crop worldwide after rice, wheat and corn. In many cou...

Higher fertilization on winter wheat increased the fluctuation of winter wheat yield in different rainfall years and impacted the sustainable development of winter wheat production on the Loess Plateau. Based on the long term field experimental data at Chagnwu Agricultural Station, this paper evaluated the EPIC model. And this paper also suggested a sustainable fertilizer level for winter wheat...

1 Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology Evaluation of genetic diversity in Magnaporthegrisea populations adapted to finger millet using simple sequence repeats (SSRs) markers T. Kiran Babu, Rajan Sharma, H.D. Upadhyaya, P.N. Reddy, S. Deshpande, S. Senthilvel, N.D.R.K. Sarma, R.P. Thakur Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500030, Andhra Pradesh,...

1 Laboratoire Mixte International Adaptation des Plantes et Microorganismes Associés Aux Stress Environnementaux, Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie IRD/ISRA/UCAD, Dakar, Senegal, UMR DIADE, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 3 Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, Dipartimento di Scienze Bio-Agroalimentari, Consiglio Nazionale ...

J. Kihara et al. (eds.), Improving Soil Fertility Recommendations in Africa using the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2960-5_3, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 Abstract Africa is the continent with the lowest fertilizer use per hectare notwithstanding the fact it possesses geologically old, infertile and degraded soils. This c...

We summarize a number of findings in laryngology demonstrating that perturbations of phonation, including increased jitter and shimmer, are associated with desiccated ambient air. We predict that, given the relative imprecision of vocal fold vibration in desiccated versus humid contexts, arid and cold ecologies should be less amenable, when contrasted to warm and humid ecologies, to the develop...

G. Dahal*†, R. Ortiz, A. Tenkouano, J. d’A. Hughes, G. Thottappilly, D. Vuylsteke and B. E. L. Lockhart International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Oyo Road, PMB 5320, Ibadan, Nigeria (International mailing address c/o L. W. Lambourn & Co., Carolyn House, 26 Dingwall Road, Croydon CR9 3EE, UK); Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA; and Inter...

1 Crop Research Informatics Laboratory International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines 2 Crop Research Informatics Laboratory Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico 3 Bioversity International, Montpellier, France 4 Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Peru 5 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India 6 Bioversity I...