Marker-Assisted Pyramiding of Downy Mildew-Resistant Gene Ppa3 and Black Rot-Resistant Gene Xca1bo in Popular Early Cauliflower Variety Pusa Meghna

Cauliflower is an important extensively here grown cool season vegetable in India.Black rot and downy mildew are major devastating diseases reducing yield and quality of the crop.To tackle these through host plant resistance, a marker-assisted backcross breeding method was followed to pyramid a black rot-resistant gene (Xca1bo) and a downy mildew-r

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A wheat spike detection method based on Transformer

Wheat spike detection has important research significance for production estimation and crop field management.With the development of deep learning-based algorithms, researchers tend to solve the detection task by convolutional neural networks (CNNs).However, traditional CNNs equip with the inductive bias of locality and scale-invariance, which mak

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Unmet need for primary healthcare and associated individual and household-level factors in Kenya: results from a national survey

Objective To determine the prevalence of unmet need for primary healthcare and associated individual and household-level factors in Kenya.Design The data for this study are drawn from the 2016 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS).A multistage sampling technique involving a systematic selection of clusters at the national level and final

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