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Precision phenotyping for improving drought stress tolerant maize in southern Asia and eastern Africa

Project

Global Food security

This project contributes to the research aim 'Global food security'. What are the sub-aims? Take a look:
Global Food security


Project code: 81109046
Contract period: 01.01.2009 - 31.12.2011
Budget: 1,200,000 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research

Goal: to enhance food security and raise incomes of resource-poor farming families and consumers in southern Asia (Thailand and South China) and eastern Africa (Kenya). Purpose: To provide poor farmers with abiotic stress (mainly drought and low fertility) tolerant quality protein maize and breeders of national programs and seed companies with innovative phenotyping platforms to assess genotypic variability in drought adaptation and water use in field trials

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