A description of silk cut, a stress-related loss of kernel integrity in preharvest maize

Plant Disease

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 439-444

  Odvody, G N ^a   Spencer, N ^a   Remmers, J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

corn; drought stress; kernel streaking; popping; splitting

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030942826     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1997.81.5.439     Document Type: Article

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