Zinc deficiency is one of the major causes malnutrition in communities due to consumption zinc-deficient staple food. With accessibility and affordability, biofortification an agricultural intervention beneficial for all stakeholders involved as any actor. A total 16 exotic zinc biofortified maize hybrids developed at different research stations CIMMYT got introduced evaluated across three sepa...

In plant breeding and agricultural research, biplot analysis has become an important statistical technique. The goal of this study was to find the winning genotype(s) for test settings in a part Southwest region Nigeria, as well investigate nature extent genotype × environment interaction (GEI) effects on Bambara groundnut (BGN) production. experiment carried out four environments (two separate...

The microhabitat preference of caddisfly (Trichoptera) communities was studied in 8 types of microhabitats in a fast-flowing, medium-sized, lowland stream in Latvia. A total 36 caddisfly taxa belonging to 14 families were recorded in microhabitat samples. A PCA biplot of caddisfly taxa abundance in microhabitats showed 3 distinct caddisfly taxa groups: depositional [Limnephilidae Gen. sp., Anab...

We construct a weighted Euclidean distance that approximates any distance or dissimilarity measure between individuals that is based on a rectangular cases-by-variables data matrix. In contrast to regular multidimensional scaling methods for dissimilarity data, the method leads to biplots of individuals and variables while preserving all the good properties of dimension-reduction methods that a...

An assessment was previously made of the effects of organic and low-input field management systems on the physical, grain compositional and processing quality of wheat and on the performance of varieties developed using different breeding methods ("Comparison of quality parameters of wheat varieties with different breeding origin under organic and low-input conventional conditions" [1]). Here, ...