Agricultural production in the Koutiala region, southern Mali, is based on cash sources (cotton and groundnut), cereal sources (maize, sorghum, millet), and a store of wealth (livestock). In these low-input farming systems, crop production is seriously constrained by soil fertility decline. Research is being conducted in the region to investigate the potential of improved fallows planted to leg...

The research aimed to assess the effect of bottom sediment on the content, bioaccumulation and translocation of heavy metals in maize biomass. The investigations were conducted in 2006-2007 as a pot experiment on light soil of the granulometric composition of weakly-loamy sand. The experimental design comprised 3 treatments: without sediment (I), a 5% sediment admixture (II) and a 10% sediment ...

Assessment of genetic distance between parents and selection diverse are extensively used in many crops. Current study focuses the importance assessed through SSR markers (GDMOL) morphological traits (GDMOR) 28 fodder maize inbred lines its impact on heterotic expression resultant 195 single cross hybrids. While comparing mean green yield top performing hybrids synthesised with higher GDMOL GDM...

The subject of this study was the validation of a high-performance liquid chromatography method for the analysis of amino acids in fodder. The contents of amino acids were determined in maize, soybean, soybean meal, as well as in their mixtures enriched with different amounts of methionine, threonine and lysine. The method involved the acid hydrolysis of the sample (6 h at 150 °C), automated de...

The Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops (GMHT) were conducted in the UK from 2000 to 2002 on beet (sugar and fodder), spring oilseed rape and forage maize. The management of the crops studied is described and compared with current conventional commercial practice. The distribution of field sites adequately represented the areas currently growing these crops, ...

Maize is the most important crop in Mexico, being central to diets of consumers, particularly smallholders, and an undetermined amount allocated as straw, green fodder, and, a lesser extent, silage for animal feed. Nitrogen fertilizer considered one factors affecting growth, grain yield, maize biomass production. In this context, main objective study was evaluate effects different levels nitrog...

Maize and soybean intercropping is a cereal-legume pattern that not only increases grain yield but also improves the nutritional value of silage. Experiments were conducted in summer season to compare composition forage silage quality mono-cropped maize intercropped maize-soybean harvested at two stages maturity. The main treatments one sole crop (SM) four patterns (one-row one-row (1M1S), two-...