Fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) is an important indigenous leaf and seed vegetable of West Africa. It is among the neglected and underutilized crops with high nutritional, medicinal and industrial potentials. Twenty five genotypes of fluted pumpkin collected from eleven s...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/16119
Apomixis is seed and embryo formation without fertilization. A study was carried out from August, 2012 to May, 2014 in order to investigate the possibility of occurrence of apomixis in fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis Hook. F.) using emasculation method. Five genotypes of f...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/15261
A half diallel study was conducted using seven genotypes of soybean to identify superior parents suitable for developing high yielding new cultivars and hybrids in soybean. The mean squares due to GCA was significant for four characters out of five characters studied. The signifi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/34174
Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important food crop in southern Nigeria with high genetic variability. However, this variability is not characterized. Fifty sorghum accessions collected from different states in southern Nigeria were evaluated for eleven agronomic char...
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Research Article10.9734/ajahr/2021/v8i430128