Sesame is one of the oldest oilseed crops, valued not only for its traditional importance in food, culture and medicine, but also for its high oil content, superior nutritional quality and significant economic value. In this study, 20 advanced sesame genotypes along with standard...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2026/v29i53941
Maize is the leading cereal crop worldwide with wide adaptability and high productivity potential. Foliar diseases are arguably the major biotic constraints for maize yield. Turcicum Leaf Blight (TLB) is considered to be the most persistent and destructive maize disease among var...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2021/v40i4231609
In the present investigation D² values ranged from 36.84 to 369.02 and 40 genotype comprising 38 inbreds and 2 hybrids are grouped into seven and two clusters respectively. Among the clusters with inbred lines the cluster I with 16 inbreds emerged as dominating cluster followed b...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/31660
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the second most important staple crop suffering from various fungal, bacterial and viral diseases leading to a decrease in yield and productivity of the crop. Breeders have found r gene responsible for developing resistance in the crop agains...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i92289
Micronutrient deficiencies persist where affordable diets provide insufficient quantities of bioavailable minerals and vitamins. Pulses are strategically important targets for biofortification because they combine protein, dietary fibre and micronutrients with high consumption in...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i96299
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