Myriad definitions have been used for the term heat stress, but here it is defined as a
deleterious response to elevated temperature. For cereal crops, heat stress reduces yield or …

Low maize (Zea maysL.) yields and the impacts of climate change on maize production
highlight the need to improve yields in eastern and southern Africa. Climate projections …

When maize (Zea mays L.) is stressed at flowering because of deficits of water, light,
nutrients, and sometimes by long photoperiods and lack of thermal adaptation, ear growth …

High temperature around flowering and early grain filling greatly reduced maize yield.
Hybrids responded differently to high temperature stress, but the underlying mechanisms …

The main objective of our study was to use Bayesian methods to quantify the uncertainties
related to phenological development of maize (Zea mays L.) under various climate …

An understanding of the genetic and environmental basis of genotype× environment
interaction (GEI) is of fundamental importance in plant breeding. In mapping quantitative trait …

Molecular-marker loci were used to investigate the adaptation differences between highland
and lowland tropical maize. An F 2 population from the cross of two inbred lines …

The length of the growing cycle is one of the most important traits determining hybrid
adaptability to the environment. The objective of this work was to study the development, dry …

Plant breeding has been successful in developing drought resistant crop cultivars. However
the traditional breeding method by using yield as a selection index and performing multi …

Threats to crop production due to climate change are one of the greatest challenges facing
plant breeders today. While considerable adaptive variation exists in traditional landraces …