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Abstracts Home             Research in Nutrition

Adoption of beta-carotene-rich sweet potato in drought-prone environments in central Mozambique: rethinking breeding and dissemination paradigms to assure sustained adoption

J. Low, M.I. Andrade, F. Zano

Michigan State University, USA

Enhancing the nutritional quality of locally adapted maize cultivars in eastern and southern Africa by converting to quality protein maize

D. Kirubi, O. Odongo, G. Ombakho, K. Kitenge, Z. Mduruma

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Kenya

Six years of quality protein maize development in Mozambique

P.S. Chauque, P. Fato, M. Denic, M. Langa, D. Mariore, C. Senete, W. Haag

Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Agronomica, Mozambique

Nutritional biofortification of sorghum

L. Mehlo, B. Okole

Scientific & Industrial Research & Develoment Centre, Zimbabwe

Breeding for aflatoxin resistance and protein quality in maize

F.J. Betrán, T. Isakeit, S. Bhatnagar, M. Edwards, B. Ochs, K. Mayfield, C. McKee, H. Atta, Gary Odvody, M. Menz

Texas A & M University Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, USA

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