For this study, 201 consumers from Touba Senegal, were invited to evaluated four new flour products in comparison with the conventional pearl millet flours: instant pearl millet flour, instant pearl millet flour pearl millet flour, instant pearl millet flour with added dry mango and carrot powder (Food-to-Food fortification), and the previous product...

The economically important post flowering stalk rot (PFSR) disease of maize known as Fusarium stalk rot (FSR) is caused by Fusarium verticillioides. A genome wide association study (GWAS) was conducted with 342 maize lines for identification and validation of genomic regions associated with FSR resistance. The genotypic and phenotypic data used for the...

In this study 220 urban consumers of Eldoret were asked i) about socioeconomic characteristics and nutritional knowledge, ii) evaluate five flours with two preparations using affective tests, iii) to provide willingness-to-pay for the five flours using with experimental auctions. The data contain a set for each of the three objectives. The first data set...

For this study, 296 consumers from Dakar, Senegal, were invited to evaluated five pearl millet flours: (a) conventional, compared to four instant-porridge flour products; (b) sifted; (c) wholegrain; (d) sifted with premix; (e) wholegrain with micronutrient premix and food-to-food fortified (FtFF). Consumers' acceptance was measured with affective tests,...

The efficiency of genomic selection methodologies can be increased by sparse testing where a subset of materials are evaluated in different environments. Seven different multi-environment plant breeding datasets were used to evaluate four different methods for allocating lines to environments in a multi-trait genomic prediction problem. The results of the...

New and improved maize hybrids, developed by the CIMMYT Global Maize Program, are available for uptake by public and private sector partners, especially those interested in marketing or disseminating hybrid maize seed across South Asia and similar agro-ecological zones. Following a rigorous trialing and a stage-gate advancement process culminating in the...

Genomic prediction (GP) can be used in the breeding of polysomic polyploid plant species. Different models can be used to generate the genomic prediction including single trait and multi-trait models. The data provided in this dataset were used to investigate the accuracy of four different genomic prediction models use for several traits in potato. The...

A large database of individual farmer field data (n = 4,107) for rice production in the Northwestern Indo- Gangetic Plains of India was used to decompose rice yield gaps and to investigate the scope to reduce nitrogen (N) inputs without compromising yields. Stochastic frontier analysis was used to disentangle efficiency and resource yield gaps, whereas...

A field study was framed in rice crop under conservation agriculture (CA) based rice-wheat system at experimental farm of Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA)-CIMMYT, Ladhowal, Punjab, India during kharif 2019. In the present study, nine treatments were imposed out of which four are CA-based treatments (ZT-N0, ZT-N50, ZT-N75 and ZT-N100), four are CA...

Asia. Conventional tillage-based and flood irrigated puddled transplanted rice (PTR) is a major contributor to faster depleting aquifers. Urgent actions are therefore warranted to develop alternate productive, profitable, water and N-use efficient rice production practices for rice-wheat (RW) cropping system. Conservation agriculture (CA) based...

This data set presents the results of 121 focus group discussions with men and women, in randomly selected communities, therefore representative of the six major maize agroecological zones in Kenya. Topics include biotic and abiotic stresses, in particular storage pests, maize lethal necrose disease, fall army worm and drought. Communities were asked what...

Rapidly depleting groundwater in western Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is a major threat to food security in South Asia. Conventional tillage-based and flood irrigated puddled transplanted rice (PTR) is a major contributor to faster depleting aquifers. Urgent actions are therefore warranted to develop alternate productive, profitable, water and N-use...

In water scarce regions of South Asia, diversification of rice with maize is being advocated towards sustainability of cereal-based cropping systems. Adoption of innovative agronomic management practices, i.e., conservation agriculture (CA) and sub-surface drip irrigation (SSDI) are considered as key strategies for much needed interventions to address the...

A field experiment was conducted in maize under medium-term conservation agriculture (CA) based maizewheat system at BISA-CIMMYT, Ladhowal, Punjab during kharif 2019 to assess the effect of CA+ practices (CA with sub-surface drip irrigation) with variable N doses on maize. The CA+ treatments were residue retained (WR) permanent bed (PB) with sub-surface...

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) implemented storage experiments in 2019 at the experiment station of El Batán Texcoco, the State of Mexico, Mexico (2282 m above sea level), to evaluate the impact of storage technologies on seed of maize landraces. Experimented were conducted on four Mexican landraces during three and six...

Within the framework of SATYN, two types of nurseries are produced: SATYN series with odd numbers are lines for drought-stressed areas, and SATYN series with even numbers are lines for heat stress conditions. These nurseries have been phenotyped in the major wheat-growing mega environments through the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) and the...

Combines presence data of Striga hermonthica and Striga asiatica on different crops from four different sources, obtained from online publications or authors.

Pests are the key yield limiting factors in agricultural production systems around the world. Their population dynamics are shown to vary with the modifications in agro-ecosystem, cropping system and management practices. Plentiful information is available on assessment of their seasonal population fluctuations mainly due to abiotic factors in...

Intensive tillage operations, indiscriminate use of irrigation water, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides and crop biomass burning have made the conventional rice–wheat (RW) system highly energyintensive and inefficient. In the recent past, portfolios of climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAP) have been promoted as a potential alternative to improve...

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management practices are getting popular across South-Asia as an alternative to the conventional system for particular weed suppression, resources conservation and environmental quality. An 8-year study (2012–2013 to 2019–2020) was conducted to understand the shift in weed density and diversity under different...