A total of 280 unsexed broiler chicks, 21 days-old and weighing 580 g on average were randomly distributed into 28 experimental units of 10 birds each. Seven experimental diets containing respectively 0% (T0 control), 20% raw cowpeas (T1), 20% raw cowpeas + 0.2% of Canarium charcoal (T2), 20% raw cowpeas + 0.2% maize cob charcoal (T3), 20% cooked cowpeas (T4), 20% cooked cowpeas + 0.2% Canarium...

Bacterial diversity and community structure of two maize varieties (white and yellow) during fermentation/steeping for ogi production, and the influence of spontaneous fermentation on mycotoxin reduction in the gruel were studied. A total of 142 bacterial isolates obtained at 24-96 h intervals were preliminarily identified by conventional microbiological methods while 60 selected isolates were ...

The cytogenetic interactions in maize x Tripsacum hybrid derivatives can be remarkably complex. The number of viable, somewhat female fertile chromosome combinations is astonishing. Fifty-four different combinations are listed in this paper, and others are certainly possible. In successive backcrosses to maize, chromosome numbers scale both up and down with ease, sometimes stabilizing for a few...

Sorghum responds to the ingress of the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum sublineolum through the biosynthesis of 3-deoxyanthocyanidin phytoalexins at the site of primary infection. Biosynthesis of 3-deoxyanthocyanidins in sorghum requires a MYB transcription factor encoded by yellow seed1 (y1), an orthologue of the maize gene pericarp color1 (p1). Maize lines with a functional p1 and flavonoid str...

There exists extraordinary morphological and genetic diversity among the maize landraces that have been developed by pre-Columbian cultivators. To explain this high level of diversity in maize, several authors have proposed that maize landraces were the products of multiple independent domestications from their wild relative (teosinte). We present phylogenetic analyses based on 264 individual p...

The current precision fertilization technology of maize is still incomplete and unsystematic. In the paper, according to the fact of maize production of black soil zone in Jilin province, spatial variability of soil nutrient is studied, precision fertilization model of maize is introduced, a web-based expert system for maize precision fertilization is developed. Finally, the precision fertiliza...

This paper systematically studies maize seeds varieties identification technology and algorithms using advanced machine vision technology. A multi-object contour extraction algorithm adapting to maize seeds varieties identification was proposed. Geometric features and color features parameters of maize seeds were defined and analyzed, and a multi-object geometric features and color features ext...

In order to identify miscellaneous seed from maize seed accurately and rapidly, maize seed purity identification method based on color extracted from the images of both the maize crown and the maize side was proposed for improving maize seed purity. Firstly, segmentation and single extraction were carried on the original image; secondly, the color models RGB and HSV were used to extract multidi...

The methane potential of nine varieties of fresh maize harvested at three different times and of maize silage was experimentally determined in batch assays. The ultimate methane productivity in terms of volatile solids (VS) was determined as 213.94-313.63, 195.88-334.81 mL/g VS from several fresh and silage maize in three stages, respectively. The average specific methane yield of wax ripeness ...

new sources of maize resistance to the maize weevil, sitophilus zeamais infestation are indispensable in successful breeding programs against post harvest grain damage. the study investigated the characters and mechanisms that confer resistance to weevil infestation using twenty elite maize genotypes. detailed morphological and physical studies were conducted on whole-maize grain. the grain hul...