Yield performance and adaptation of early and intermediate drought-tolerant maize genotypes in guinea savanna of Nigeria. | [Sarhad Journal of Agriculture • 2014]

Author(s):

1. Omolaran Bashir Bello: Department of Biological Sciences, Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria

2. Odunayo Joseph Olawuyi: Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria

3. Suleiman Yussuf Abdul-Maliq: Department of Agronomy, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State - Nigeria

4. Sunday Ayodele Ige: Department of Agronomy, University of Ilorin, Ilorin - Nigeria

5. Jimoh Mahamood: Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

6. Musibau Adewuyi Azeez: Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria

7. Micheal Segun Afolabi: Department of Crop Science, Landmark University, Omuaran, Kwara State - Nigeria

Abstract:

Drought-tolerant maize genotypes belonging to two different maturity (10 early and 10 intermediate) groups were evaluated for yield and other related characters in the Southern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria for two years (2009 and 2010). The differences among genotypes between and within maturity groups differed significantly (P

Page(s): 53-66

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Published: Journal: Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Year: 2014

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