Search Results - Development assistance.

An assessment of yield gains under climate change due to genetic modification of pearl millet by Singh, Piara, Boote, K. J., Kadiyala, M. D. M., Nedumaran, S., Gupta, S. K., Srinivas, K., Bantilan, M. C. S.

“…Developing cultivars with traits that can enhance and sustain productivity under climate change will be an important climate smart adaptation option. …”
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Benefits, challenges, and enabling conditions of collective action to promote sustainable production and marketing of products from Africa's dry forests by Paumgarten, F., Kassa, H., Zida, M., Moeliono, M.

“…Collective action has been identified, by governments and nongovernmental organizations, as a mechanism to improve smallholder farmers' bargaining power and access to input and output markets. In many developing countries, supporting collective action has and continues to be an important policy instrument. …”
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PEACH: predicting frost events in peach orchards using IoT technology by Watteyne, Thomas, Diedrichs, Ana Laura, Brun-Laguna, Keoma, Chaar, Javier Emilio, Dujovne, Diego, Taffernaberry, Juan Carlos, Mercado, Gustavo

“…The low-power wireless network is composed entirely of commercial off-the-shelf devices. We develop a methodology for deploying the network and present the open-source tools to assist with the deployment and to monitor the network. …”
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Production of tetraploid plants of non apomictic citrus genotypes by Aleza, Pablo, Juárez, José, Ollitrault, Patrick, Navarro, Luis

“…Ploidy manipulation in Citrus is a major issue of current breeding programs aiming to develop triploid seedless mandarins to address consumer demands for seedless fruits. …”
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Genetic mapping of microsatellite markers around the arcelin bruchid resistance locus in common bean by Blair, Matthew W., Muñoz, C., Buendía Castellanos, Hector F., Flower, J, Bueno Mondragon, J.M., Cardona Mejía, César

“…A total of 10 previously developed microsatellites and 22 newly developed markers based on a sequenced BAC from the APA locus were screened for polymorphism and of these 15 were mapped with an F2 population of 157 individuals resulting from a susceptible × resistant cross of SEQ1006 × RAZ106 that segregated for both the arcelin 1 allele and resistance to the bruchid, Z. subfasciatus. …”
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The cassava genome: current progress, future directions by Prochnik, S.E., Marri, P.R., Desany, B, Rabinowitch, P.D., Kodira, C, Fauquet, Claude M., Tohme, Joseph M., Rodríguez, F., Mohiuddin, M, Harkins, T, Rokhsar, DS, Rounsley, S.

“…An efficient genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach is being developed to catalog SNPs both within the mapping population and among diverse African farmer-preferred varieties of cassava. …”
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Reduced impact logging guidelines for Indonesia by Elias, Applegate, G., Kartawinata, K., Machfudh, Klassen, A.

“…The principles and practices for forest harvesting in Indonesia (2000) have been developed to provide a uniform set of minimum standards for logging practices in the production and limited production forests in Indonesia. …”
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Pedoman reduced impact logging Indonesia by Elias, Applegate, G., Kartawinata, K., Machfudh, Klassen, A.

“…The principles and practices for forest harvesting in Indonesia (2000) have been developed to provide a uniform set of minimum standards for logging practices in the production and limited production forests in Indonesia. …”
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Genome wide association study and genomic prediction for stover quality traits in tropical maize (Zea mays L.) by Vinayan, M.T., Seetharam, Kaliyamoorthy, Babu, R., Zaidi, Pervez Haider, Blümmel, Michael, Nair, S.K.

“…The testing set consists of breeding lines recently developed within the program and the training set consists of a panel of lines from the working germplasm comprising the founder lines of the newly developed breeding lines and also an unrelated diversity set. …”
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Diversity under threat: Connecting genetic diversity and threat mapping to set conservation priorities for Juglans regia L. populations in Central Asia by Gaisberger, Hannes, Legay, Sylvain, André, Christelle, Loo, Judy, Aaliev, Sagynbek, Bobokalonov, Farhod, Muhsimov, Nurullo, Kettle, Christopher J., Vinceti, Barbara

“…In addition, we suggest (iii) assisted natural regeneration in areas where ‘minor threat levels’ from climate change coincide with ‘severe threat levels’ from one or more short-term threats. …”
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An improved consensus genetic linkage map of cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata L. Walp. ) by Diop, N.N., Ehlers, J.D., Wanamaker, S., Muchero, W., Fatokun, C.A., Guojing, L., Roberts, P.A., Close, T.J., Timothy

“…They provide powerful tools for genetic analysis and a foundation for marker-assisted breeding, trait mapping, and positional cloning. …”
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Control biológico de fitopatógenos, insectos y ácaros: agentes de control biológico. V. 1 by Santos Díaz, Adriana Marcela, Cotes Prado, Alba Marina, Caro Quintero, Alejandro, Bustillo Pardey, Alex Enrique, Escobar, Alexander, Díaz García, Andrés, Arcila Cardona, Ángela María, Carabalí Muñoz, Arturo, Vásquez Ordóñez, Aymer Andrés, Lohr, Bernhard Leo, Oehlschlager, Cam, Beltrán Acosta, Camilo Rubén, Moreno Velandia, Carlos Andres, Espinel Correal, Carlos, González Almario, Carolina, Clerck, Caroline de, Hoy, Casey W., Narváez Vásquez, Consuelo Alexandra, León, Diana Marcela, Rincón Rueda, Diego Fernando, Espitia Malagón, Eduardo María, Alarcón Torres, Érika Andrea, Grijalba, Érika Paola, Moreno, Fabiola, Borrero Echeverry, Felipe, Cruz Barrera, Fredy Mauricio, Berg, Gabriele, Vargas, Germán, Barrera Cubillos, Gloria Patricia, León Martínez, Guillermo Adolfo, González F., Guillermo, Jijakil, Haissam, Rivera Trujillo, Hugo Fernando, Hernández Nopsa, John Fredy, Ibarra, Jorge, Jurat Fuentes, Juan Luis, Gómez Valderrama, Juliana Andrea, Köhl, Jürgen, Smalla, Kornelia, Villamizar, Laura Fernanda, Solorzano Buitrago, Leonardo, Torres Torres, Lissette Aracelly, Uribe Gutiérrez, Liz Alejandra, Pulido, Luz Astrid, Pérez, Manuel Ricardo, Manzano Martínez, María del Rosario, Díaz Niño, María Fernanda, Díaz Niño, María Fernanda, Zuluaga Mogollón, María Victoria, Belaich, Mariano Nicolás, Hurst, Mark, Gómez Álvarez, Martha Isabel, Rodríguez, Martha Liliana, Wisniewski, Michael, López Ferber, Miguel, Barreto Triana, Nancy del Carmen, Ghiringhelli, Pablo Daniel, Cuartas, Paola Emilia, Betancourt, Ruth Análida, Kobayashi, Sadao, Aragón Rodríguez, Sandra Milena, Massart, Sébastien, Lewis Mosher, Stephen, Kondo Rodriguez, Demian Takumasa, Jackson, Trevor, Bettiol, Wagner, Fargetton, Xavier, Elad, Yigal, Zapata Narváez, Yimmy Alexander, Martínez, Yohana Alexandra, Balbín Suárez, Alicia

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Women Scientists and Managers in Agricultural Research in the Philippines by Brush, Edwin G., Merrill-Sands, Deborah, Gapasin, Dely P., Mabesa, Virginia L.

“…It is intended to help research managers and their organizations in developing countries meet the challenges of changing work-force characteristics. …”
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Improvement of resistance to fusarium root rot through gene pyramiding and validation of SSR PVBR87 marker in common bean by Obala, Jimmy

“…There is also need to select for these traits in the populations developed in this study as these traits eventually affect acceptability of any potential new variety. …”
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Food security portal by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Coherent action is needed to help vulnerable populations cope with the hikes in their food bills, to assist developing-country farmers to swiftly respond to the opportunity posed by the rising demand for their products, and to provide information for evidence based related macro-economic policies. …”
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Epistatic interactions of major effect drought QTLs with genetic background loci determine grain yield of rice under drought stress by Yadav, Shailesh, Sandhu, Nitika, Majumder, Ratna Rani, Dixit, Shalabh, Kumar, Santosh, Singh, S.P., Mandal, N.P., Das, S.P., Yadaw, Ram Baran, Singh, Vikas Kumar, Sinha, Pallavi, Varshney, Rajeev K., Kumar, Arvind

“…Epistatic interactions of QTLs with the genetic background and QTL-QTL interaction plays an important role in the phenotypic performance of introgression lines developed through genomic-assisted breeding (GAB). …”
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Association mapping unveils favorable alleles for grain iron and zinc concentrations in lentil (Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris) by Singh, Akanksha, Sharma, Vinay, Dikshit, Harsh Kumar, Aski, Muraleedhar, Kumar, Harish, et al.

“…These candidate SSRs can be used in marker-assisted genetic improvement for developing Fe and Zn fortified lentil varieties. …”
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Economic analysis of Eucalyptus biomass cultivation for energy in Argentina by Olemberg, Demián Jeremías, Lupi, Ana Maria

“…Our methodology could assist in modelling future economic investment projects, and facilitate the incorporation of technical, economic and policy variants. …”
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Report on sampling leave tissue, DNA extraction and prepare for shipment for whole genome sequencing by Hernández, Luis Miguel, Castiblanco, Valheria, Florian, David

“…Some of these techniques include i) field and greenhouse high-throughput phenotyping technologies to increase traits evaluated and their accuracy, ii) molecular markers to use in mass-assisted selection, and iii) flowering induction through prolonged photoperiods to accelerate the developmental rate of plants and flowering index. …”
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ERA evidence synthesis & meta-analysis automation (ERAgriculture/AI-Powered-Meta-Analysis-Automation R-code GitHub) by Muller, Lolita, Joshi, Namita, Steward, Peter Richard, Rosenstock, Todd Stuart

“…This repository, developed under the CGIAR Sustainable Farming Program (SFP), establishes an AI-assisted workflow for evidence synthesis and meta-analysis in agriculture. …”
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