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the potato is the second most important food for families after maize. Smallholder farmers produced around 10 million tonnes of potatoes this year,
The seed companies think providing more data to farmers could increase America maize yield from 160 bushels an acre (10 tonnes a hectare) to 200 bushelsiving a terrific boost to growersmeagre margins.
a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily attached to a bike and powered by pedaling, the low-cost,
The startup still sells maize shellers upon request, but doesn advertise them.)The solar lamps, Wu says,
and use the new maize sheller: Farmers need only change a sprocket on the wheel
Now not only could farmers process all their maize in one day, but they also retained their bikes for other uses.
Sometimes maize wasn ejecting properly, and the machine would jam, coming to a sudden halt and putting stress on the threads,
and used longer bolts with springs to secure the sheller so when the maize jammed,
Yet from drought tolerant maize to virus-resistant cassava, many biotech traits are being developed that could quickly improve the livelihoods of poorer African farmers.
including the sugar in maize and sugarcane. Fermentation turns the sugar into lactic acid which in turn is a building block for polylactic acid.
the leading producer of white maize in the country but the hot and humid climate favors the proliferation of all kinds of pests.
"If 22 million tons of maize are produced in Mexico, we are talking about 88 million pills;
A team of scientists led by Carnegie Wolf Frommer has discovered now that a sugar-transport protein in maize
The ancestors of the modern maize planted today across large acreages in the U s . and worldwide had much smaller endosperms.
more sugar-filled seeds such as maize kernels were more attractive to human cultivators, due to their nutritive value and their ability to produce sturdier seedlings.
Frommer team analyzed maize genes involved in sugar-related processes to find ones that were seed urned onduring development.
which encodes a sugar transporter protein in maize, was shown to be expressed specifically in the maize seed by the group of Prem Chourey at University of Florida,
and had evidence of selection due to domestication. The evidence that the SWEET4C gene was selected during domestication was discovered by the team of Jeff Ross-Ibarra at UC Davis,
while comparing SWEET4 sequences from modern maize against its wild ancestor Teosinte. If variation of the sequence of a specific gene is reduced greatly in modern versions
Gratifyingly, the importance of the study goes beyond maize yield. The authors found that the corresponding gene in rice was also critical for seed filling
and breeders. ur work indicates that SWEET4 could be a promising target for engineering varieties of maize,
Corn (Maize)- 43g Sugar cane-36g Sugar beet-34g Wheat (straw as process fuel in CHP plants)- 35g 2g Ethanol (land-using)- 32g 2g Biodiesel (land-using)- 21g 2g Ethanol
researchers discovered that the Raxx protein was present in at least eight species of the disease-causing Xanthamonas bacteria that are known to attack ricehe staple food for half of the world populations well as maize, cassava, sugar cane, tomatoes, peppers
including the sugar in maize and sugarcane. Fermentation turns the sugar into lactic acid, which in turn is a building block for polylactic acid.
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