Farmers experience poor harvests yearly because they plant maize varieties unsuitable for their regions. It's advisable to test a new variety on a small plot, observing its growth and production. Once ...
The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) has issued an alert after a bacterial disease on maize was detected in some provinces. The disease, called Goss’s Wilt ...
Nebraskensis) on maize in four provinces. Goss’s Wilt is a bacterial disease, and there are no recorded fungicides that work against it. It can be managed by planting highly resistant maize ...
were expressed using a constitutive seed-specific Zein promoter and the 35S promoter, respectively, in transgenic maize. In this case, almost 2-7.1-fold greater expression of the F gene mRNA was ...
Zein, as the main protein in maize kernels, has significant applications in pharmacy and nutraceuticals, and resistant starch confers health benefits that may reduce the risk of some cancers, ...