Farmers need to monitor crop growth and development and obtain early estimates of final yield. The unavailability of a comprehensive method for estimating crop yield leads to contradicting estimates, subjective national ...

Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant mineral element in the soil and the ability of Si to alleviate the adverse effects of sodium chloride (NaCl) on plant growth is well documented. The response of tobacco to Si and ...

The International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) develops inbred lines and hybrids yearly that have several breeding and commercial attributes. However, the recently developed inbred lines that are adapted ...

Drought and heat stress are major abiotic stresses limiting maize production in Zimbabwe and Africa at large. It is of great importance to evaluate the breeding value of combined drought and heat stress donor parents for ...

Two main experiments were carried out to study the effects of irrigation methods, calcium levels and other nutrients on soft rot infection of potato. The first experiment was an outdoor pot experiment, conducted in 2012 ...

Croplands in smallholder farming areas of Southern Africa are in a degraded state, with most cereal and legume crops yielding less than 1 t ha-1 of grain. Restoring productivity of these degraded croplands is therefore key ...

Much of Sub –Saharan Africa is plagued by food insecurity due to low and variable soil fertility recurrent droughts and limited access to external inputs among other reasons. Variable levels of soil fertility caused result ...

White mould is a fungal disease of tobacco and other crops and is caused by Golovinomyces cichoracearum. White mould resistance is introduced into commercial varieties by backcrossing followed by phenotypic selection which ...

Poor rainfall, increasing temperatures, increasing population and poor soils pose threats and concerns over survival of the human population. Conservation agriculture (CA), a potential mitigation solution to these threats, ...