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• Maize — This article is about the cereal grain, primarily known as corn in the United States. For other uses, see Maize (disambiguation). Corn redirects here. For other uses, see Corn (disambiguation). Maize Illustration depicting both male and female… …   Wikipedia

• Maize weevil — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

• Maize streak virus — (MSV) is an insect transmitted maize pathogen in the genus Mastrevirus of the family Geminiviridae that is endemic in sub Saharan Africa. The A strain of MSV (MSV A) causes sporadic maize streak disease epidemics throughout the maize growing… …   Wikipedia

• Selection methods in plant breeding based on mode of reproduction — This article discusses Selection methods in plant breeding based on mode of reproduction. Some plants reproduce by (more or less strict) self fertilization where pollen from a plant will fertilise reproductive cells or ovules of the same plant.… …   Wikipedia

• plant breeding — Introduction       application of genetic (genetics) principles to produce plants that are more useful to humans. This is accomplished by selecting plants found to be economically or aesthetically desirable, first by controlling the mating of… …   Universalium

• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center — Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo, CIMMYT Front gates of CIMMYT in El Batán. Maize test fields seen far center. Formation 1943 [1 …   Wikipedia

• Crop breeding in Nepal — Contents 1 Crop improvement in Nepal 2 National Organizations 3 Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives 4 Department of Plant Bree …   Wikipedia

• Plant breeding — is the art and science of changing the genetics of plants in order to produce desired characteristics.[1] Plant breeding can be accomplished through many different techniques ranging from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for …   Wikipedia

• Quality Protein Maize — (QPM) contains nearly twice as much usable protein as other maize (or corn) grown in the tropics and yields 10% more grain than traditional varieties of maize. It was developed by Dr. Surinder Vasal and Dr. Evangelina Villegas at the… …   Wikipedia

• Transgenic maize — (corn) has been deliberately genetically modified to have agronomically desirable traits. Traits that have been engineered into corn are resistance to herbicides and incorporation of a gene that codes for the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin,… …   Wikipedia

• Physiological and molecular wheat breeding — Plant Breeding is art and science of improving the heredity of plants for benefit of mankind. In Evolutionary concept, plant breeding is merely a continuation of the natural evolution of the crop species, changing its course of direction in the… …   Wikipedia