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Maize Improvement Current Advances in Yield, Quality, and Stress Tolerance under Changing Climatic Scenarios
Maize is one of the most generally grown cereal crops at global level, followed by wheat and rice. Maize is the major crop in China both in terms of...
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Maize-Maize System
Important cropping system in Pakistan, India, China, and other nations is the maize-maize cropping system. The burgeoning populations in developing...
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Maize and Millets
Maize is an important cereal crop in India, which has the highest production and productivity in the world after rice and wheat. In India,...
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Effects of Soil Physicochemical Properties on Maize, Wheat, and Soybean Yields in Maize-Wheat and Maize-Soybean Intercropping Systems in China: a Meta-analysis
Intercropping has demonstrated its potential to boost crop yields and optimize land utilization in numerous instances. Yet, the specific mechanisms...
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Genome Diversity in Maize
Since the beginning of recorded history, maize has been cultivated and evolved. Globally, maize is among the three leading staple food grains. The...
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Phosphorus Makes Silicon Fertilization Mandatory: Effect of Nano-Silicon on the One-Sided Antagonisms of Phosphorus Fertilization in Wheat–Maize and Maize-Maize Cropping System
PurposeSilicon (Si) improves phosphorus (P) utilization in plants. With this effect of Si, less P fertilizer can be used and reducing the negative...
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Weed flora in spring maize and atrazine residues in its green fodder and silage under three maize-based rotations
Maize ( Zea mays L.) is sown for fodder and silage in the spring season (February-June) by commercial dairy farmers in northwestern India and its...
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Transgenic and Genome-Edited Maize: Status and Prospect
Maize is a versatile crop with wider adaptability and is grown in most countries (over 170) in the world. Among the food cereal crops, maize has the...
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Etiology, management, and host response of cold-tolerant maize germplasm for common rust disease of maize under temperate conditions
Common rust is one of the most destructive diseases of maize, causing significant losses to maize production under temperate agro-climatic...
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Biofortification of Maize (Zea mays)
The production and consumption of maize (Zea mays) are the highest for human food as well as animal feed. Maize lacks essential amino acids (lysine,...
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Genomic Selection in Maize Breeding
Rapid developments in the field of genomics have benefitted plant breeding in recent times. Genomic selection (GS) is one of the tools helping plant...
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Current Biotechnological Approaches in Maize Improvement
Maize is a major consumable cereal crop and a resource of a range of economic products worldwide. Approximately, 55%, 20%, and 12% of maize are...
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Soybean-Maize Off-season Double Cropping System as Affected by Maize Intercropping with Ruzigrass and Nitrogen Rate
The soybean-maize off-season double cropping is the main grain production system in Brazil. Maize off-season is most commonly grown sole and without...
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The maize WRKY transcription factor ZmWRKY64 confers cadmium tolerance in Arabidopsis and maize (Zea mays L.)
Key messageZmWRKY64 positively regulates Arabidopsis and maize Cd stress through modulating Cd uptake, translocation, and ROS scavenging genes...
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Host Plant Resistance to Insect Pests in Maize
Maize, a potential global crop is attacked by a wide array of insect pests. Among them, spotted stem borer, pink stem borer, fall armyworm, and shoot...
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Variability for kernel starch components in Indian maize germplasm and identification of polymorphic molecular marker for selected waxy maize genotypes
Maize starch and especially kernel amylose and amylopectin possess immense potential in industrial applications and the health sector. The Indian...
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Guarding Maize: Vigilance Against Pathogens Early Identification, Detection, and Prevention
Maize, also known as corn, is a crucial crop worldwide. It is noticeable that due to diseases maize production is affected. Maize diseases can have a...
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Expression of a truncated maize SPS increases source capacity in maize
In an attempt to increase source capacity, transgenic corn was generated by expressing a truncated maize sucrose phosphate synthase (ZmSPSΔ482) under...
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Damage evaluations of the maize pests’ complex: a comparative injuriousness of fall armyworm and stem borers under subsistence maize cultivation techniques
BackgroundGiven the perplexity in the maize pest complex which has been exacerbated by the addition of the invasive fall armyworm to the preexisting...
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Maize Nutraceutomics: Genomics, Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology
Maize (Zea mays) is known as the queen of cereals because of its higher grain yield potential, wider adaptability, genetic diversity, use as food,...
