Search
Now showing items 621-630 of 1311
Geographic patterns of phenotypic diversity in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) landraces from North Eastern Ethiopia
Understanding the pattern of genetic variability is an important component of germplasm collection and
conservation as well as the crop’s improvement process including the selection of parents for making
new genetic ...
Cultivar-dependent variation in lentil (Lens culinaris L.) and implications for selecting food-feed varieties
Lentil straw is one of the extensively used livestock feed in mixed crop-livestock systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. To identify the importance of varietal and environmental sources of variation in the nutritive value of straw ...
The Impact of International and National Investment in Barley Germplasm Improvement in the Developing Countries
Barley grain is used for animal feed, malt and food for human consumption. Archaeological evidence shows that barley was used in human food several thousand years ago (Bhatty, 1992). Although replaced by wheat and rice in ...
Study of expression pattern of defence genes in chickpea and pathogenicity causing genes in FOC through qPCR in resistant and susceptible cultivars grown under elevated CO2
Total RNA was extracted from root tissues of wilt infected and control chickpea seedlings of susceptible cv. JG 62 and resistant cv. WR 315 grown under ambient and elevated CO2 condition. cDNA was synthesized from total ...
Index Based Livestock Insurance: Index announcement for March 2013
Poster of Index Based Livestock Insurance: Index announcement for March 2013
The Effect of Supplementing Bothriocline schimperi, Erythina brucie and Brugmansia suaveolens bercht as Replacement for Concentrate on Weight Gain, Testicular Parameters and Semen Characteristics of Bonga Sheep
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of flushing Bonga rams with selected indigeneous forages of Ethiopia, Botheriocline schimperi, Erythina Brucei and Brugmansia Suaveolensbercht. The effects on average daily ...
Doyo Gena sheep temperature similarity in Ethiopia
This map was prepared for Livestock and fish CRP project for Mapping breeds to appropriate production environments: a case study of Ethiopian indigenous sheep and goats. Doyo Gena sheep temperature similarity in Ethiopia ...
Opportunities for sustainable legume business development: an experience from the public-private partnership progresses in south Eastern Ethiopia.
Chickpea is widely grown food grain legume in rotation with cereals and is an important source of food and income. The chickpea value chain comprise of different actors at different functional levels. Evidence indicates ...
Report on Farmers Field Day on Sweet Lupin in Doyogena, Ethiopia
The farmer exposure and learning event was conducted in Anicha-Sadicho Kebele (village), in Doyogena district, South-western Ethiopia on December 3, 2020. The goal of the field day was to introduce and promote processing ...
Modeling Farmers’ Adoption Decisions of Multiple Crop Technologies: The Case of Barley and Potatoes in Ethiopia
This paper argues and provides empirical evidence that adoption decisions on multiple technologies involve a series of three sequential sub-decisions. Using a multivariate tobit and multivariate probit models and a nationally ...