Publications by authors named "Isma'ila Muhammad"
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- Grafting is an essential practice in sustainable vegetable farming, significantly aiding in managing soil-borne diseases and improving crop growth and yields.
- The study tested different grafting techniques on high-yielding eggplant varieties combined with wild rootstocks to evaluate their growth and yield traits, noting high germination rates and successful grafts.
- Results showed that using specific wild rootstocks, particularly MWR and TWR, led to increased fruit yield, size, and overall vigor compared to non-grafted and self-grafted versions, highlighting grafting's effectiveness for eggplant production.
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- The study focuses on improving backcross breeding using marker-assisted techniques to enhance the recovery of the recurrent parent genome (RPGR), which helps eliminate undesired genetic traits while retaining beneficial ones.
- A specific cross was made between the Malaysian rice variety Putra-1, which is high-yield but susceptible to bacterial leaf blight (BLB), and the BLB-resistant variety IRBB60, utilizing various molecular markers for effective selection.
- The results showed a high RPGR percentage in the progenies, with several lines exhibiting resistance to BLB, leading to recommendations for these new lines as viable rice varieties for commercial farming.
Brown planthopper (BPH; Stal) is considered the main rice insect pest in Asia. Several BPH-resistant varieties of rice have been bred previously and released for large-scale production in various rice-growing regions. However, the frequent surfacing of new BPH biotypes necessitates the evolution of new rice varieties that have a wide genetic base to overcome BPH attacks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrought is the leading threat to agricultural food production, especially in the cultivation of rice, a semi-aquatic plant. Drought tolerance is a complex quantitative trait with a complicated phenotype that affects different developmental stages in plants. The level of susceptibility or tolerance of rice to several drought conditions is coordinated by the action of different drought-responsive genes in relation with other stress components which stimulate signal transduction pathways.
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