Best Types of Maize Hybrids for the Western High Plains of the USA

Crop Science

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2065-2070

  Guillen Portal, F R ^a   Russell, W K ^b   Baltensperger, D D ^c   Eskridge, K M ^b   D'Croz Mason, N E ^b   Nelson, L A ^b  

^a NW Agricultural Research Center ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0242654071     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2003.2065     Document Type: Article

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