Breaking the stranglehold of striga

Dipping maize seeds in a very small amount of herbicide blocks the ability of Striga hermonthica to parasitize and kill crops. Experiments over the past two years m Kenya have shown that dipping seeds in the herbicide imazapyr can triple the yield...

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Autor principal: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Formato: News Item
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1996
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47442
Descripción
Sumario:Dipping maize seeds in a very small amount of herbicide blocks the ability of Striga hermonthica to parasitize and kill crops. Experiments over the past two years m Kenya have shown that dipping seeds in the herbicide imazapyr can triple the yield...