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Archive for February, 2012
TWO DEGREES UP – PART THREE: KENYA
TWO DEGREES UP – PART THREE: KENYA A look at farming systems in the country’s Mount Kenya region, and innovative…
TWO DEGREES UP – PART TWO: GHANA
TWO DEGREES UP – PART TWO: GHANA Farmers in the Upper West Region of Ghana are finding that rising temperatures…
ICRISAT takes up research on diseases, pests that damage crops (Times of India)
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) of Central government recently launched a plant protection project to carry out a research on diseases and insect pests that c…
A large-effect QTL for rice grain yield under upland drought stress on chromosome 1
Molecular Breeding (2011). R. Venuprasad, M. E. Bool, L. Quiatchon, M. T. Sta Cruz, M. Amante, G. N. Atlin et al.