Quantitative relationships between pollen shed density and grain yield in maize

Crop Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 934-942

  Westgate, Mark E ^a   Lizaso, Jon ^b   Batchelor, William ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037509969     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2003.9340     Document Type: Article

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