Adoption and Impact of the Maize Hybrid on the Livelihood of the Maize Growers: Some Policy Insights from Pakistan by Akhter Ali, AbduRahman Beshir Issa, Dil Bahadur Rahut

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Production of Extracellular Laccase from Bacillus subtilis MTCC 2414 Using Agroresidues as a Potential Substrate by Narayanan P. Muthukumarasamy, Beenie Jackson, Antony Joseph Raj, Murugan Sevanan

“…The carbon and nitrogen sources resulted in high enzyme yield at 3% sucrose (275 ± 3.11 U/mL) and 3% peptone (352.2 ± 4.32 U/mL) for rice bran and 3% sucrose (247.4 ± 3.51 U/mL) and 3% peptone (328 ± 3.33 U/mL) for wheat bran, respectively. The molecular weights of partially purified laccase were 52 kDa for rice bran and 55 kDa for wheat bran. …”
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Evaluation of Soil Drainage Methods for the Productivity of Waterlogged Vertisols in Jama District, Eastern Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Muluken Lebay, Wudu Abiye, Tilahun Taye, Seid Belay

“…Thus, a study was conducted to investigate the effects of soil drainage methods on surface runoff, soil loss, and yield of wheat crop as indicators of productivity improvement of typical Vertisol in the Jama district of Amhara Region, Ethiopia, during the rainy season of 2017/18. …”
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Proximate Composition, Physicochemical, Functional, and Antioxidant Properties of Flours from Selected Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Varieties by R. A. T. Nilusha, J. M. J. K. Jayasinghe, O. D. A. N. Perera, P. I. P. Perera, C. V. L. Jayasinghe

“…Total starch and amylose contents of flours were significantly lower (p<0.05) than those of commercial wheat flour. Flour from Suranimala contained approximately similar amylopectin content as commercial wheat flour. …”
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Agricultural Management Options for Climate Variability and Change: Sensor-Based, Variable-Rate Nitrogen Management by Wesley Porter, Ahmad Khalilian, Daniel Dourte, Clyde Fraisse

“…If that rate reduction were applied to all the cotton, corn, and wheat grown in the United States, CO2 emissions from N fertilizer production would be decreased by 2.7 million tons. …”
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Agricultural Management Options for Climate Variability and Change: Sensor-Based, Variable-Rate Nitrogen Management by Wesley Porter, Ahmad Khalilian, Daniel Dourte, Clyde Fraisse

“…If that rate reduction were applied to all the cotton, corn, and wheat grown in the United States, CO2 emissions from N fertilizer production would be decreased by 2.7 million tons. …”
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Comparing the bio-fertilizer quality of co-composted municipal organic wastes of different mix ratio: evidence from Tigray, northern Ethiopia by Kassa Teka, Tigist. A. Gessesse, Yemane Welday

“…Method: Four treatments, T1 (70% sludge, 15.3% wheat straw and 14.7% cattle manure), T2 (50% sludge, 14.8% wheat straw and 35.2% cattle manure), T3 (30% sludge, 20% wheat straw and 50% cattle manure) and T4 (20% sludge, 14.2% wheat straw and 65.8% cattle manure) having three replications were arranged in a randomized complete design. …”
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Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Key Genes Involved in the Response of <i>Triticum urartu</i> to Boron Toxicity Stress by Gul Sema Uyar, Anamika Pandey, Mehmet Hamurcu, Tomas Vyhnanek, Mustafa Harmankaya, Ali Topal, Sait Gezgin, Mohd. Kamran Khan

“…The domestication and breeding of wheat genotypes through the years has led to the loss in their genetic variation, making them more prone to different abiotic stresses. …”
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CHEMICAL AND ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CHICKEN NUGGET BASED ON COMPOSITE FLOUR FROM MOCAF, BROWN RICE AND CORN STARCH by Lia Hairunnissa, Arni Komala Sari, Irawan Satrio Jati, Ila Maratush Shalihah, Sarah Dhia Akifah, Azizah Nur Izzati, Nia Ariani Putri, Zulfatun Najah

“…In this study, mocaf, brown rice flour and corn starch were used as an alternative fillers to wheat flour as a means of reducing dependence on wheat flour as an imported product and increasing the nutritional content of nuggets. …”
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In vitro Allelopathic Potential of Leaf Water Extracts of Plantago lanceolata and P. major on the Germination of Some Crops by Onur Yaraş, Nadim Yılmazer

“…In this study, the allelopathic effects of leaf water extracts from two weed species, Plantago lanceolata and P. major, on the seed germination of some crop plants, including wheat, sunflower, lentil, bean, carrot, radish, and purslane were investigated. …”
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Data Mining Evidences Variabilities in Glucose and Lipid Metabolism among Fish Strains: A Case Study on Three Genotypes of Gibel Carp Fed by Different Carbohydrate Sources by Xuerong Song, Haokun Liu, Junyan Jin, Dong Han, Xiaoming Zhu, Yunxia Yang, Shouqi Xie

“…An 8-week feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the application of common carbohydrate sources, cornstarch (CS), wheat starch (WS), and wheat flour (WF), to different gibel carp genotypes, Dongting, CASIII, and CASV. …”
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Application of analytical hierarchical process in assessing the suitability of land for growing grain crops by Olsid Mema, Etleva Jojic, Perparim Laze, Mykyta Khramov, Oleksandr Lymar

“…The AHP was used to assess the suitability of land for wheat cultivation, identifying the most important factors and their weights. …”
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Effective resistance to powdery mildew in Aegilops L. accessions by M. A. Kolesova, N. N. Chikida, M. Kh. Belousova, L. G. Tyryshkin

“…Marchal) is widespread and harmful in all regions of bread wheat cultivation. Severe development of powdery mildew leads to a decrease in the number and weight of grains. …”
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Evaluating Producer Welfare Benefits of Whole-Farm Revenue Insurance by Moharram Ainollahi Ahmadabadi, Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh, Ghader Dashti, Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani

“…For example, the welfare benefits of insuring wheat, barley, alfalfa, wheat–barley, wheat–alfalfa, barley–alfalfa, and barley–alfalfa in terms of cost reduction to producers at 75% coverage are 8.8, 1.8, 2.9, 1.2, 0.9, and 1.8, respectively. …”
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Biological and economic characteristics of the allotetraploid with genomic formula DDAuAu from the cereal family by K. U. Kurkiev, I. G. Adonina, M. Kh. Gadjimagomedova, L. V. Shchukina, T. A. Pshenichnikova

“…Diploid species of the genera Triticum and Aegilops – bread  wheat  relatives – are an important source of agronomically  valuable traits. …”
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The impact of staple crop price instability and fragmented policy on food security and sustainable development: a case study from Bangladesh by Zia Ahmed, Abdul Kadir, Rafiul Alam, Hafiz-Al-Rezoan, Md. Aminul Haque Laskor

“…Abstract This study aimed to analyze price instability in Bangladesh’s primary staple crops, rice, and wheat, focusing on (1) the effects of food price volatility and inflation on food security and; (2) the importance of prioritizing food price stability in national policy. …”
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Application of sewage sludge for cereal production in a Mediterranean environment (Lebanon) by Danny Romanos, Nabil Nemer, Yara Khairallah, Marie Therese Abi Saab

“…The objective of this research was to assess the effect of the application of different sewage sludge rates on the wheat production as an alternative of chemical fertilizer. …”
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Soil moisture retrieval over agricultural region through machine learning and sentinel 1 observations by Deepanshu Lakra, Deepanshu Lakra, Shobhit Pipil, Prashant K. Srivastava, Suraj Kumar Singh, Manika Gupta, Rajendra Prasad

“…The present study provided a comprehensive evaluation of a wide range of advanced machine learning algorithms for Soil Moisture (SM) estimation from microwave Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) backscatter observations over the wheat fields. From the wheat fields, samplings were performed to collect the in situ datasets on three different dates concurrent to the Sentinel-1 overpasses. …”
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Healthy Foods as Proxy for Functional Foods: Consumers’ Awareness, Perception, and Demand for Natural Functional Foods in Pakistan by Akhter Ali, Dil Bahadur Rahut

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Haplotypes-based genetic analysis: benefits and challenges by D. Sehgal, S. Dreisigacker

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