Cochliobolus miyabeanus is a serious threat to the standing rice crop in context of production and productivity as it results in loss of both grain quality and yield. The pathogen causes brown spot disease in rice which had resulted in two severe famines in past. Hence, in this r...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i1730563
Thirty biofortified inbred lines of maize were evaluated for 11 parameters to study the genetic diversity by using D2 statistics during kharif 2017in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replications at Agricultural Research farm, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU Varan...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i1630531
Biofortification of food crops using conventional breeding or biotechnological approach is gaining momentum to alleviate micronutrient malnutrition. Rice is a nice choice for biofortification of grain iron and zinc content as this is a cheap and chief staple food for millions of...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130822
In view to overcome the major problem of ‘hidden hunger’ mainly caused by micronutrient deficiency, breeding for micronutrient enriched staple food crops is important. In developing countries, iron and zinc deficiencies are reported to be major health risk factor causing a high m...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1830794