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View article: Genetic Response of Taro to Taro Leaf Blight Disease for Food System Resilience
Genetic Response of Taro to Taro Leaf Blight Disease for Food System Resilience Open
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is of great economic importance in Ghana. Its production is constraint by high incidence of Phytophthora colocasiae, causing heavy corm yield losses and impacting farmers livelihood negatively. Breeding for taro …
View article: Ghanaian Kente Weaving as an Epitome of Environmental Sustainability and Resource Efficiency
Ghanaian Kente Weaving as an Epitome of Environmental Sustainability and Resource Efficiency Open
Purpose: The study explores how traditional Kente weaving in Ghana serves as a model for resource efficiency and environmental sustainability. The study looks at how indigenous Knowledge systems and cultural values promote waste minimisati…
View article: Sustaining Productivity while Reducing Methane Emission in Calcareous Soils: Implications of Combining Inorganic Fertilizer and Biochar
Sustaining Productivity while Reducing Methane Emission in Calcareous Soils: Implications of Combining Inorganic Fertilizer and Biochar Open
A considerable proportion of applied nutrients are adsorbed by the calcite surface of calcareous soils, making them unavailable to plants. A combination of organic amendments and fertilizers can improve nutrient retention and mineralizatio…
View article: Exploiting utilization potential of taro for diverse food products and improved farmer livelihood
Exploiting utilization potential of taro for diverse food products and improved farmer livelihood Open
Taro use is limited due to undiversified utilization options. Generating information on diverse household utilization options of improved taro cultivars and their commercially viable processed forms would boost uptake of newly release vari…
View article: Yield, biochemical properties and cooking quality traits of sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) as affected by Nitrogen and Potassium Fertilizer rates
Yield, biochemical properties and cooking quality traits of sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) as affected by Nitrogen and Potassium Fertilizer rates Open
This study evaluated the effects of mineral fertilizer rates on biochemical properties, cooking quality traits and root yield of sweetpotatoes. The experimental design was 4 x 4 factorial in randomized complete block with three replication…
View article: Expanding industrial uses of sweetpotato for food security and poverty alleviation
Expanding industrial uses of sweetpotato for food security and poverty alleviation Open
Sweetpotato breeding over the years solely depended on sensory evaluation for domestic uses, thereby downplaying the need for adjustment of breeding objectives and selection procedures to cater for industrial potential. This study was cond…
View article: Breeding farmer and consumer preferred sweetpotatoes using accelerated breeding scheme and mother–baby trials
Breeding farmer and consumer preferred sweetpotatoes using accelerated breeding scheme and mother–baby trials Open
Increased sweetpotato utilization has become an important breeding objective recently, with much emphasis on the development of non-sweet sweetpotatoes for income and food security in Ghana. The objective of this study was to evaluate 26 e…
View article: Mining Goes Digital
Mining Goes Digital Open
Coal is an important part of the energy mix in today’s world. In most countries, the deposits that can be economically extracted using surface mining techniques are becoming scarcer, resulting in underground mining, especially longwall ope…
View article: Sweetpotato Ipomoea batatas (L.) Varietal Response to Sweetpotato Weevils Infestation under Different Production Conditions in Southern Ghana
Sweetpotato Ipomoea batatas (L.) Varietal Response to Sweetpotato Weevils Infestation under Different Production Conditions in Southern Ghana Open
Background and Objective: Sweetpotato is an important crop widely cultivated in many developing countries and insect pests are major production constraint.This study aimed to examine the response of different varieties to sweetpotato weevi…
View article: Farmer Participatory Evaluation of Five Taro Lines for Food Security in Ghana
Farmer Participatory Evaluation of Five Taro Lines for Food Security in Ghana Open
Taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] is the fifth most important root crop consumed worldwide. Its production in Ghana over the years has been bedeviled by the taro leaf blight disease (TLBD). There is the need for improved taro cultivar…
View article: Collection and Conservation of Root and Tuber Crops in Ghana
Collection and Conservation of Root and Tuber Crops in Ghana Open
Collection and conservation of root and tuber crop genetic resource are important exercises that safeguard their genetic diversity for future and crop improvement purposes. The Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute (PGRRI) has long be…
View article: Exploitation of genetic potential of sweetpotato for end-user traits improvement
Exploitation of genetic potential of sweetpotato for end-user traits improvement Open
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas Lam) is a staple food globally, but it has remained underutilised resource in Ghana due to lack of consumer preferred cultivars. There is the need to develop staple-type sweetpotato cultivars which are preferre…
View article: Genetic Control of Beta-carotene, Iron and Zinc Content in Sweetpotato
Genetic Control of Beta-carotene, Iron and Zinc Content in Sweetpotato Open
Micronutrients deficiency is a major contributor to poor health in developing countries. It can be alleviated by biofortification or enrichment of staple crops with micronutrients. Sweetpotato is a major staple crop in numerous tropical co…
View article: Genetic incompatibilities in sweetpotato and implications for breeding end-user preferred traits
Genetic incompatibilities in sweetpotato and implications for breeding end-user preferred traits Open
Sweetpotatoes utilization is low in Ghana due to lack of farmer and consumer preferred cultivars.Poor flowering and incompatibilities among genotypes limit breeding progress in its improvement.The objective was to assess compatibilities am…
View article: Development of End-User Preferred Sweetpotato Varieties
Development of End-User Preferred Sweetpotato Varieties Open
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) is the fourth most important root and tuber crop in Ghana, in terms of production. Attainment of increased sweetpotato utilization has become an important breeding objective in Ghana recently. The maj…
View article: Constraints and Breeding Priorities for Increased Sweetpotato Utilization in Ghana
Constraints and Breeding Priorities for Increased Sweetpotato Utilization in Ghana Open
Sweetpotato is used in various food preparations in place of rice, cassava, yam and plantain in Ghana. In spite of this it does not have the same importance in Ghanaian diet as other root and tuber crops. Consumer taste, preference and acc…
View article: Compressive Strength Testing of Toughskin Thin Spray-On Liner
Compressive Strength Testing of Toughskin Thin Spray-On Liner Open
Thin spray-on liners (TSLs) have been attracting more and more attention as an alternative to the steel mesh in underground roadway support. In order to investigate and compare the compressive strength of glass fibre reinforced ToughSkin T…
View article: Application of the theory of constraints to the pillar development cycle of an underground coal mine
Application of the theory of constraints to the pillar development cycle of an underground coal mine Open
The underground coal mine pillar development cycle consists primarily of three sets of interdependent and synchronised cycles, i.e., the coal cutting cycle by a continuous miner (CM), the support cycle by a roof bolter and the coal transpo…