Aims: To evaluate newly improved maize varieties for fall armyworm and stem borer resistance and determine the relationship among traits for increased productivity in a rainforest location in Nigeria. Study Design: The experiments were laid out in a 10 x 10 triple lattice design...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2022/v23i630244
Aims: This study was conducted with a view to validate and compare flowering models (indices) containing temperature, heat units, photoperiod and their combinations developed to predict the number of days to flowering in maize in different agro-ecological zones of West and Centra...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43194
Aims: The objectives of the study were to examine the effects of climatic factors on maize yield and identify best planting date for maize in Rainforest Agroecology of Nigeria. Study Design: Grain yield of seventeen open pollinated varieties of maize evaluated in 21 randomly sele...
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Research Article10.9734/jaeri/2023/v24i5539
Maize genotypes of different maturity groups with good seed quality had been developed, but there is little or no information on how the seed quality of the maize genotypes are affected by their maturity groups. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to evaluate maize varie...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i530527
Problem: Half-sib progenies were developed in a maize breeding program of the Department of Crop Production and Protection of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria but have not been evaluated for further improvements. Aims: Therefore, this study was undertaken to evaluate t...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2020/v32i630292
Aims: The objectives of this study were to evaluate maize genotypes of different maturity groups for seedling and grain filling water use efficiency and determine relationship that exist between the water use efficiency traits and yield of different maize maturity groups. Study D...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i530154
Aims: The objectives of this study are to assess the effect of pollination methods on the seed quality and yield of progenies from an early-maturing maize population and to determine the relationship between seed quality and grain yield of the different progenies. Study Design:...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/43262
Aims: To evaluate drought-tolerant (DT) maize varieties for water use efficiency at the seedling and grain filling stages and determine the relationship between water use efficiency and grain yield of the DT maize varieties since information about the water use efficiency of thes...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/25857