Base temperature and heat unit requirement of 49 Mexican maize races

Maydica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 277-282

  Ruiz C , J A ^a   Sanchez G J J ^a   Goodman, M M ^b  

^a Instituteo National de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias   (Mexico)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Base temperature; Heat units; Maize; Mexican races

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032463865     PISSN: 00256153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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