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ECONOMY-ZAMBIA: Maize Production (Almost) a Success Story
ECONOMY-ZAMBIA: Maize Production (Almost) a Success Story By Isabel Chimangeni LUSAKA, Feb 1 (IPS) - Zambia is poised to have a maize surplus this season but it is still unlikely that the food will reach many of the 58 percent of Zambians that are classified as extremely poor. The ministry of agriculture recently released a national food balance sheet showing that the country will have a surplus of 160,000 metric tonnes of maize during the 2006/07. In the 2005/06 season the output was 63 percent above the previous season and 54 percent above the five-year average. Only a few years ago, such a surplus of Zambians’ main staple crop would have seemed an unreachable dream. Successive droughts had caused a food crisis in the eastern and southern parts of the country, the main maize producing areas. People were forced to pick stunted maize cobs for immediate consumption. Daily meals dwindled to one, and the amount of food in each meal had to be reduced. But production changed dramatically after President Levy Mwanawasa took over from Frederick Chiluba in 2001. Mwanawasa, a commercial farmer himself, prioritized agriculture. He re-introduced the agricultural subsidies which Chiluba had abolished in the 1990s.
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BioMed Central | Full text | The PTI1-like kinase ZmPti1a from maize (Zea maysL.) co-localizes with callose at the plasma membrane of pollen and facilitates a competitive advantage to the male gametophyte
© 2006 Herrmann et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The tomato kinase Pto confers resistance to bacterial speck disease caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato in a gene for gene manner. Upon recognition of specific avirulence factors the Pto kinase activates multiple signal transduction pathways culminating in induction of pathogen defense. The soluble cytoplasmic serine/threonine kinase Pti1 is one target of Pto phosphorylation and is involved in the hypersensitive response (HR) reaction. However, a clear role of Pti1 in plant pathogen resistance is uncertain. So far, no Pti1 homologues from monocotyledonous species have been studied. Results Here we report the identification and molecular analysis of four Pti1-like kinases from maize (ZmPti1a, -b, -c, -d). These kinase genes showed tissue-specific expression and their corresponding proteins were targeted to different cellular compartments.
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Maize, KS (Kansas) Houses, Apartments, Cars, Mortgage Status, and Residents Info
Size of family households: 183 2-persons, 120 3-persons, 124 4-persons, 56 5-persons, 36 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons. Size of nonfamily households: 76 1-person, 10 2-persons. 498 married couples with children. 110 single-parent households (27 men, 83 women). 98.2% of residents of Maize speak English at home. 1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 24% speak English not well). 0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (46% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 38% speak English not well). 0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
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Maize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Naming conventions The term maize derives from the Spanish form ( maÃz ) of the indigenous Taino term for the plant, and is the form most commonly heard in the United Kingdom.
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The MAiZE
Owning A MAiZE Who We Are From the beginning, our mission has been to provide an enjoyable and educational source of good farmin' fun to communities around the world.
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Maize - Eat. Drink. Save Money.
Restaurant Description Maize features a dazzling décor – designed by internationally-renowned restaurant designer Tony Chi – that has been featured in The Sopranos and NBC’s Weekend Today.
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About Our Business: The Maize Recreation Commission is a publicly supported service agency dedicated to providing recreation and leisure activities for all the citizens of Maize USD 266.
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