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Jeffrey A Gwirtz, Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal
Corn is the cereal with the highest production worldwide and is used for human consumption, livestock feed, and fuel. Various food technologies are currently used for processing industrially produced maize flours and corn meals in different parts of the world to obtain precooked refined maize flour, dehydrated…
Boddupalli M. Prasanna, Natalia Palacios-Rojas, Firoz Hossain, Vignesh Muthusamy + 9 more
'Vignesh Muthusamy' 'Abebe Menkir' 'Thanda Dhliwayo' 'Thokozile Ndhlela' 'Felix San Vicente' 'Sudha K. Nair' 'Bindiganavile S. Vivek' 'Xuecai Zhang' 'Mike Olsen' 'Xingming Fan'] Maize is a major source of food security and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Latin America, and the Caribbean, and is among…
Sarah Hake, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
The natural history of maize began nine thousand years ago when Mexican farmers started to collect the seeds of the wild grass, teosinte. Invaluable as a food source, maize permeated Mexican culture and religion. Its domestication eventually led to its adoption as a model organism, aided in large part by its large…
Sandra Etumah Ifie, Reuben Samson Dangana, Dominic Swase, Michael Ben Okon + 7 more
Zea mays L : A comprehensive Review of Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Bioactive Compounds [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] Authors: Sandra Etumah Ifie, Reuben Samson Dangana, Dominic Swase, Michael Ben Okon, Wusa Makena, Mary Olaoluwa Agunloye, Chinyere Nneoma Ugwu, Josiah…
Boddupalli M. Prasanna, Jill E. Cairns, P. H. Zaidi, Yoseph Beyene + 16 more
'Dan Makumbi' 'Manje Gowda' 'Cosmos Magorokosho' 'Mainassara Zaman-Allah' 'Mike Olsen' 'Aparna Das' 'Mosisa Worku' 'James Gethi' 'B. S. Vivek' 'Sudha K. Nair' 'Zerka Rashid' 'M. T. Vinayan' 'AbduRahman Beshir Issa' 'Felix San Vicente' 'Thanda Dhliwayo' 'Xuecai Zhang'] Key message Intensive public sector breeding…
Ram Chandra Bhatta, Akriti Risal, Asmita Shrestha, Sandesh Thapa + 2 more
The experiment was conducted using an alpha lattice design with two replications for each genotype, comprising 20 maize hybrids obtained from CIMMYT and NMRP, including two check varieties. The treatment genotypes were assessed during the spring season of 2024 at the agronomy farm of Gokuleshwor College, Baitadi. The…
Lu Chen, Jingyun Luo, Minliang Jin, Ning Yang + 31 more
Maize is a globally valuable commodity and one of the most extensively studied genetic model organisms. However, we know surprisingly little about the extent and potential utility of the genetic variation found in the wild relatives of maize. Here, we characterize a high-density genomic variation map from 744 genomes…
Pedro Revilla, Mara Lisa Alves, Violeta Andelković, Carlotta Balconi + 7 more
'Isabel Dinis' 'Pedro Mendes-Moreira' 'Rita Redaelli' 'Jose Ignacio Ruiz de Galarreta' 'Maria Carlota Vaz Patto' 'Sladana Žilić' 'Rosa Ana Malvar'] Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the major crops of the world for feed, food, and industrial uses. It was originated in Central America and introduced into Europe and other…
Azalech Oli, Solomon Benor, Gizachew Haile, Berhanu Tadesse + 3 more
Understanding the extent and structure of genetic diversity within breeding populations is essential for sustaining long-term genetic gain in maize improvement programs. In this study, a panel of 2,555 maize doubled haploid (DH) lines representing diverse genetic backgrounds was genotyped using 3305 high-quality single…
Ganapati Mukri, RN Gadag, Jayant S Bhat, T. Nepolean + 5 more
Genetic dissection of high KRN trait and cob length has been undertaken by several researchers resulting in identification of loci controlling the traits. Further fine mapping of QTLs controlling KRN and cob length and TILLING strategies identified the underlying genes. All these studies are used temperate maize…
Jan Bocianowski, Agnieszka Tomkowiak, Ewelina Wagner, Daniel Lipiński + 1 more
Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most important cereal crops worldwide, with yield being a complex quantitative trait controlled by multiple genetic factors. The aim of this study was to identify molecular markers associated with maize yield using next-generation sequencing (NGS), association mapping, and physical…
Huan Chen, Amy Baetsen-Young, Addie Thompson, Brad Day + 5 more
Previous archaeological and anthropological studies have demonstrated the myriad of ways that cultural and political systems shape access to food and food preferences. However, few studies have conducted a biocultural analysis linking specific genotypic/phenotypic traits as evidence of cultural selection in ancient…
M. Tazul Islam, A.F.M. Saiful Islam, M. Sharaf Uddin
Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important food and feed crop in Bangladesh as well as in the world. But its cultivation is limited in the soils of Sylhet, Bangladesh. To study the physiological growth indices of maize genotypes an experiment was carried out at the experimental field of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU)…
Jonathan S. Renk, Amanda M. Gilbert, Travis J. Hattery, Christine H. O’Connor + 7 more
Maize (Zea mays L.) is a multi-purpose row crop grown worldwide, which overtime has often been bred for increased yield at the detriment of lower composition grain quality. Some knowledge of the genetic factors that affect quality traits has been discovered through the study of classical maize mutants. However, much of…
David M. Wills, Clinton Whipple, Shohei Takuno, Lisa E. Kursel + 3 more
'Laura M. Shannon' 'Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra' 'John Doebley'] A reduction in number and an increase in size of inflorescences is a common aspect of plant domestication. When maize was domesticated from teosinte, the number and arrangement of ears changed dramatically. Teosinte has long lateral branches that bear multiple…
Rose Mweru Muruo, Shem B. Nchore, Richard O. Oduor, Mathew Piero Ngugi
Drought stress poses a significant threat to crop productivity, making the development of drought-tolerant crops a priority. The impact of drought on grain yield loss varies significantly, ranging from 10% to 76%, depending on the specific stage of occurrence and the severity of the drought. In this study, we…
Anne Lorant, Sarah Pedersen, Irene Holst, Matthew B. Hufford + 3 more
Domestication research has largely focused on identification of morphological and genetic differences between extant populations of crops and their wild relatives. Little attention has been paid to the potential effects of environment despite substantial known changes in climate from the time of domestication to modern…
Hossein ZareMehrjerdi, Lisa Coffey, Talukder Z. Jubery, Huyu Liu + 5 more
'Jon Turkus' 'Kyle Linders' 'James C. Schnable' 'Patrick S. Schnable' 'Baskar Ganapathysubramanian'] Quantifying the variation in yield component traits of maize (Zea mays L.), which collectively determine the overall productivity of this globally significant crop, plays a critical role in plant genetics research…
Felipe de Carvalho Araújo, Igor Gadelha, Rodrigo Yoiti Tsukahara, Luiz Pita + 4 more
'Luiz Pita' 'Filipe O. Costa' 'Igor Vaz' 'Andreza Santos' 'Guilherme Folego'] Abstract—Maize is a highly nutritional cereal, widely used for human and animal consumption and also as raw material by the biofuels industries. This highlights the importance of precisely quantifying the corn grain productivity in season…
Mathew Gideon, Emmanuel Kambai Duniya, Mamman Abakeyah James
Inorganic fertilizers have been associated with significant environmental impact, prompting the need for sustainable alternatives. This study explores the rapid conversion of residual plant biomass into organic fertilizer, offering an eco-friendly and cost-effective approach. It effects on maize growth, development…
Amanda J. Waters, Paul Bilinski, Steven R. Eichten, Matthew Vaughn + 3 more
'Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra' 'Mary Gehring' 'Nathan M. Springer'] In plants, a subset of genes exhibit imprinting in endosperm tissue such that expression is primarily from the maternal or paternal allele.Imprinting may arise as a consequence of mechanisms for silencing of transposons during reproduction, and in some cases…
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Climate change is driving the migration of crop pests and pathogens into new regions, posing significant threats to food security and safety. Aflatoxins, toxic metabolites produced by Aspergillus flavus, are of particular concern due to their carcinogenic properties. This study reports the first detection of aflatoxin…
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Using compost from big dumpsites as a soil supplement has become common practice in agricultural settings because to the high expense of artificial fertilizers. In certain situations, farmers even level smaller dumpsites and use the area for crop growth. The present investigation examined the levels of heavy metals…
Lei Fan, Yiwen Ding, Dongdong Fan, Yong Wu + 3 more
'Maurice Pagnucco' 'Yang Song'] We present a machine vision-based database named GrainSet for the purpose of visual quality inspection of grain kernels. The database contains more than 350K single-kernel images with experts' annotations. The grain kernels used in the study consist of four types of cereal grains…
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Creating mechanically sound aggregates from powder or grain-like feedstocks is a fundamental challenge across industries. One example is the production of pellets from organic materials, like wood residues and cereal grains, for biofuel and animal feed applications. However, the handling and processing of these organic…
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Global food security and environmental sustainability are closely linked to positive plant-soil feedback, for example through reduced dependence on synthetic agrochemicals. Beyond their nutritional value as protein- and lipid-rich crops, legumes have an essential ecological function by enhancing soil fertility and…