CONTRIBUTION OF GENES RELATED TO GRAIN NUMBER (GN1A AND WFP) INTROGRESSED INTO NERICA 1 TO GRAIN YIELD UNDER TROPICAL HIGHLAND CONDITIONS IN CENTRAL KENYA

ABSTRACTIn Kenya and many other African countries, improving rice productivity is vital for future food security.To improve rice productivity in Kenya, near-isogenic lines (NIL) were developed by introducing Gn1a and WFP, genes that function to increase grain number per panicle by increasing secondary and primary rachis-branches, into NERICA 1, a r

Abstract This paper examines the determinants of sexual satisfaction among Italian young men and women Outdoor Daybed at the beginning of their adulthood, taking into account the different stages of sentimental and sexual transitions.We based the analyses on the data collected in 2017 by the SELFY Survey on a sample of 7842 university students in I

International organizations (IOs) are established by sovereign states to promote cooperation, address global challenges, and advance shared interests.However, over time, many IOs have evolved beyond their L-ARGININE 500MG original mandates, exercising authority independent of their member states.This paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages

In the paper I pose the question of how, on artistic, aesthetic, and philosophical levels, decoration and domestic handicrafts as subversive strategies enable the undermining and breakdown of class-based and patriarchal divisions into high and low, objective and subjective, public and private, masculine and feminine.I explore whether handicrafts, i

Effective steel surface defect classification with low computational cost is essential for online quality inspection.The challenge of this task is large intra-class differences and unclear inter-class distances shown in various surface defects.This paper proposes a novel feature extraction method based on Legendre multi-wavelet transform and Auto-E