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Precision phenotyping for improving drought stress tolerant maize in southern Asia and eastern Africa
Project
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
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production