Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops

Scientific Publications from Program-Funded Research

Latest publications

Derera, J., Tongoona, P., Vivek, B.S., van Rij, N. and Laing, M.D. 2007. Gene action determining Phaeosphaeria leaf spot disease resistance in experimental maize hybrids. S. Afr. J. Plant Soil, 24(3): 138-144. New

Derera, J., Tongoona, P., Vivek, B.S. and Laing, M.D. 2007. 2007. Gene action controlling grain yield and secondary traits in southern African maize hybrids under drought and non-drought environments. Euphytica, October 2007. 10 pp. New

Namayanja, A., Buruchara, R., Mahuku, G., Rubaihayo, P., Kimani, P., Mayanja, S. and Eyedu, H. 2006. Inheritance of resistance to angular leaf spot in common bean and validation of the utility of resistance linked markers for marker assisted selection outside the mapping population. Euphytica, September 2006. New

Bigirwa, G., Sseruwu, G., Kaaya, A.N., Adipala, E. and Okanya, S. 2006. Fungal microflora causing maize ear rots in Uganda and associated aflatoxins. New

Seed Aid for Seed Security: Advice for Practitioners by Louise Sperling (CIAT) and Tom Remington (CRS). http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/africa/practice_briefs.htm

Reports of the National Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Surveys. http://apps3.fao.org/wiews/wiews.jsp

New Book & Review: “Standards for Cassava Products and Guidelines for Export” www.africancrops.net/News/cassavaproducts.htm.

The Africa Rice Center (WARDA) has released its annual report for 2004 - 2005. The report can be accessed at: www.warda.org/publications/AR2004-05/index.htm

Agricultural Intellectual Property Rights Policy for South Africa. The document is available at http://www.africancrops.net/News/SA-Agricultural-IPR-policy-draft-6-(1).doc.

Mugo, S., De Groote, H., Bergvinson, D., Mulaa, M., Songa, J. and Gichuki, S. 2005. Developing Bt maize for resource-poor farmers – Recent advances in the IRMA project. African Journal of Biotechnology 4(13):14900-154

'Crop Ferality and Volunteerism’, a book by Jonathan Gressel, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel. To view the Table of Contents and to order, visit the publisher’s website: http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_contents.asp?id=&parent_

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Online Publications

Bänziger, M., G.O. Edmeades, D. Beck, and M. Bellon. 2000. Breeding for Drought and Nitrogen Stress Tolerance in Maize: From Theory to Practice. CIMMYT, Mexico, D.F.

Bänziger M., and M.E. Cooper, 2001. Breeding for low-input conditions and consequences for participatory plant breeding - examples from tropical maize and wheat. Euphytica 122: 503-519.

Betrán, F.J., Ribaut, J. M., Beck, D. and Gonzalez de León, D. 2003. Genetic Diversity, Specific Combining Ability, and Heterosis in Tropical Maize under Stress and Nonstress Environments. Crop Sci 43:797-806

Betrán, F.J., Beck, D., Bänziger, M. and Edmeades, G. 2003. Genetic analysis of inbred and hybrid grain yield under stress and non-stress environments in tropical maize. Crop Sci 43:807-817.

Deera, J., Pixley, K.V. and Giga, D.P. 2001. Resistance of maize to the maize weevil: I. Antibiosis. African Crop Science Journal 9, 2:431-440, 2001.

Deera, J., Giga, D.P. and Pixley, K.V. 2001. Resistance of maize to the maize weevil: II. Non-preference. African Crop Science Journal 9, 2:431-440, 2001: II.

DeVries, J., Mwaura, F.M. and Woomer, P.L. 2002. Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops: Research and Product Development that Reaches Farmers. Programme and Abstracts for the First General Meeting of Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops. The Rockefeller Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.

Gressel, J. et al. 2004. Major heretofore intractable biotic constraints to African food security that may be amenable to biotechnological solution. Crop Protection 23: 661–689

Gurney, A.L., Grimanelli, D., Kanampiu, F., Hoisington, D., Scholes, J.D. and Press, M.C. 2003. Novel sources of resistance to Striga hermonthica in Tripsacum dactyloides, a wild relative of maize. New Phytologist 160: 557-568

Gwata, E. T., Wofford, D. S., Boote, K. J., Blount, A. R. and Pfahler, P. L. 2005. Inheritance of Promiscuous Nodulation in Soybean. Crop Science 45:635-648

Kanampiu, F.K., Ransom, J.K. and Gressel, J. 2001. Imazapyr seed dressings for Striga control on acetolactate synthase target-site resistant maize. Crop Protection 20: 885–895

Kanampiu, F.K. and Friesen, D. 2003. A new approach to striga control. Pesticide Outlook April Issue pp51-53.

Kanampiu, F.K., Kabambe, V., Massawe, C., Jasi, L., Friesen, D., Ransom, J.K. and Gressel, J. 2003. Multi-site, multi-season field tests demonstrate that herbicide seed-coatin herbicide-resistance maize controls Striga spp. and increases yields in several African countries. Crop Protection 22: 697–7 6

Kanampiu, F.K., Ransom, J.K., Friesen, D. and Gressel, J. 2002. Imazapyr and pyrithiobac movement in soil and from maize seed coats to control Striga in leg me intercropping. Crop Protection 21: 611–619

Kanampiu, F.K., Ransom, J.K., Gressel, J., Friesen, D., Grimanelli, D. and Hoisington, D. 2002. Appropriateness of biotechnology to African agriculture: Striga and maize as paradigms. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 69: 105–110.

Khan, Z. R., Hassanali, A., Overholt, W., Khamis, T. M., Hooper, A.M., Pickett, J. A., Wadhams, L.J. and Woodcock, C. M. 2002. Control of the witchweed Striga hermonthica by intercropping with Desmodium uncinatum spp., and the mechanism defined as allelopathic. J. Chem. Ecol. 28:1871-1885.

Okogbenin, E. and Fregene, M. 2003. Genetic mapping of QTLs affecting productivity and plant architecture in a full-sib cross from non-inbred parents in Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Theor Appl Genet 107:1452–1462

Popelka, J.C., Terryn, N. and Higgins, T.J.V. 2004. Gene technology for grain legumes: Can it contribute to the food challenge in developing countries? Plant Science 167: 195–206

Vain, P, Afolabi, A.S., Worland, B. and Snape, J.W. 2003. Trangene behaviour in populations of transformed plants using a new dual binary vector system: pGreen / pSoup Theoretical and Applied Genetics 107 (2) 210-2173

Ribaut, J.-M., Banziger, M. and Hoisington, D. 2002. Genetic dissection and plant improvement under abiotic stress conditions: drought tolerance in maize as an example. JIRCAS Working Report (2002) 85-92.

Online conference proceedings

Murdock, L. 2001. Proceedings of the Dakar Workshop on Genetic Improvement of Cowpea. January 8-12, 2001. Purdue University, USA. 57 pp.

Other Publications

Bänziger, M., G.O. Edmeades, and H.R. Lafitte. 2002. Physiological mechanisms contributing to the increased N stress tolerance of tropical maize selected for drought tolerance. Field Crops Res. 75: 223-233.

Bänziger, M, G.O. Edmeades, and H.R. Lafitte. 1999. Selection for drought tolerance increases maize yields over a range of N levels. Crop Sci. 39: 1035-1040.

Bänziger, M., F.J. Betrán, and H.R. Lafitte. 1997. Efficiency of high-nitrogen selection environments for improving maize for low-nitrogen target environments. Crop Sci. 37: 1103-1109.

Bänziger, M., and H.R. Lafitte. 1997. Efficiency of secondary traits for improving maize for low-nitrogen target environments. Crop Sci. 37: 1110-1117.

Bänziger, M., H.R. Lafitte, and G.O. Edmeades. 1995. Intergenotypic competition during evaluation of maize progenies under limited and adequate N supply. Field Crops Res. 44: 25-31.

Betrán, F.J., Beck, D., Edmeades, G. and Bänziger, M. 2003. Secondary traits in parental inbreds and hybrids under stress and non-stress environments in tropical maize. Field Crops Res. 83: 51-65.

Kitch, L., Koch, M. and Sithole-Niang, I. 2002. Crop Biotechnology: A working paper for administrators and policy makers in sub-Saharan Africa. FAO Sub-regional office for Southern and Eastern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe. Contact Kitch or AFRICABIO for reprints.

Muniru K. Tsanuo, Ahmed Hassanali, Antony M. Hooper, Zeyaur Khan, Festus Kaberia, John A. Pickett, Lester J. Wadhams. 2003. Isoflavanones from the Allelopathic Aqueous Root Exudate of Desmodium uncinatum. Phytochemistry (in press).

Papers published in conference proceedings

Derera J., K.V. Pixley, and D.P. Giga. 1999. Inheritance of maize weevil resistance in maize hybrids among maize lines from Southern Africa, Mexico, and CIMMYT-Zimbabwe. In: CIMMYT and EARO. Maize Technologies for the Future: Challenges and Opportunities. Proceedings of the 6th Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Maize Conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 21 – 25 September. CIMMYT, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Dhliwayo, T. and K.V. Pixley. (In press) Breeding for Resistance to the Maize Weevil. Is it Feasible? In: CIMMYT and KARI. Integrated Approaches to Higher Maize Productivity in the New Millennium. A Proceedings of the 7th Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Maize Conference and Symposium on Low Nitrogen and Drought Tolerance in Maize, held in Nairobi, Kenya, 11 – 15 February 2002.