Gloriosa superba is a medicinally important plant that produces the pharmaceutically
precious colchicine molecule. Colchicine is being used for treating gout, for enhancing the …

Background Improvement of tuber yield and tolerance to viruses are priority objectives in
white Guinea yam breeding programs. However, phenotypic selection for these traits is quite …

Dioscorea praehensilis Benth. is a semi-wild yam species and a valuable source of
resistance trait genes. To access the agronomic and tuber quality performance, eleven …

Morphological and molecular characterization of germplasm is essential for the
improvement of cultivated plants efforts. This study investigated the genetic diversity of 32 …

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is a major food security crop for millions of resource-poor farmers,
particularly in West Africa. Soil mineral deficiency is the main challenge in yam production …

White Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir.) is indigenous to West Africa, a region that
harbours the crop's tremendous landrace diversity. The knowledge and understanding of …

Striga hermonthica is a serious biotic stress limiting maize production in sub-Saharan Africa.
The limited information on the patterns of genetic diversity among maize inbred lines derived …

Heryanto FSS, Wirnas D, Ritonga AW. 2022. Diversity of twenty-three sweet corn (Zea mays
L. saccharata) varieties in Indonesia. Biodiversitas 23: 6075-6081. One of the most well …

Gloriosa superba L.(glory lily) is a medicinally and horticulturally important plant used as a
commercial source of the alkaloid colchicine. The Western Ghats in India is mostly …

In Burundi most small-scale farmers still grow traditional cassava landraces that are adapted
to local conditions and have been selected for consumer preferred attributes. They tend to …