Maize is a staple food crop for many subsistence farmers. Destructive pests have emerged causing crop losses.The cheering news is that scientists have developed disease-resistant varieties of maize.

NAIROBI: Controlling pests in maize at the growing stage is an important measure in reducing damage, which leads to loss in the overall yield at harvest. Some common pests in maize at early stages of ...

This study systematically evaluates the effects of straw returning practices—specifically the timing, depth, and amount—on the occurrence of major maize diseases (northern leaf blight and ear rot), ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

Almost all of Africa's maize crop is at risk from the devastating fall armyworm pest (Spodoptera frugiperda) according to new research. Scientists have highlighted how almost the entire African maize ...

The western corn rootworm, one of the world's most damaging maize pests, can use plant defense compounds to defend itself against its own natural enemies, so-called entomopathogenic nematodes. However ...

The Federal Government and the research community have stepped up efforts to contain a maize disease threatening food security. Ogun State Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) had reported cases ...

Some of Ethiopia’s most cultivated hybrid maize varieties include BH546, BH547, MH140, MH130, MHQ138, Melkassa-1Q, BH540 and ...

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