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

Contemporary accounts of masculinity in Britain have tended to focus on the politics of body image: how and why young men aspire to appear a certain way through forms of body modification.Drawing on ethnography carried out amongst young British males in Essex, this paper homes in on the technical processes of body modification itself, arguing that

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A case of isolated infundibular pulmonary stenosis is reported and literature is reviewed.Infundibular pulmonary stenosis is usually a part of tetralogy of Fallot or is associated with ventricular septal High Bay Light Fittings defect.Isolated infundibular pulmonary stenosis is rare.Patients may be asymptomatic in spite of significant stenosis.Dysp