Maize in the Third World
By C. Dowswell, R. Paliwal, R. Cantrell. 2019
328 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Maize in the world economy the maize plant and its uses maize production environments and methods in the developing world maize research systems in the developing world research policy issues maize genetic resources breeding advances in tropical and subtropical maize building successful maize seed industries improving maize technology delivery systems. Maize research and development: country case studies prospects for Third World maize economy.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- ROTATION IN CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS OF ZAMBIA: EFFECTS ON SOIL QUALITY AND WATER RELATIONS (2010, background): “Maize, the staple food crop for southern African farmers, is often planted in monoculture and accounts for approximately 50% of the caloric intake (Dowswell et al., 1996).”
- Establishment of a pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] core collection based on geographical distribution and quantitative traits (2007, background): “reported in other crops like wheat (Dalrymple 1986); spring barley (Vellve 1992); maize (Dowswell et al. 1996); groundnut (Jiang and Duan 1998); chickpea and pigeonpea (Shiv Kumar et al.”
- The role of rainfed agriculture in the future of global food production (2002, background): “hybrids in subtropical and tropical environments during the 1950s failed due to the lack of adaptation to climate, disease, and insect pests (Dowswell et al. 1996).”