Vertical profile of leaf senescence during the grain-filling period in older and newer maize hybrids

Crop Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 827-834

  Valentinuz, Oscar R ^a,b   Tollenaar, Matthijs ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 2442532888     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2004.8270     Document Type: Article

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