Freezing point temperatures of corn seed structures during seed development

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1564-1569

  Woltz, James M ^a   Egli, Dennis B ^b   TeKrony, Dennis M ^b  

^a SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; FREEZING; HARVESTING; SEED; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EMBRYO; ENDOSPERMS; HYBRID CORN; IMMATURE SEEDS;

CROPS;

BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; FARM CROPS; SEEDS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 28444485017     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0073     Document Type: Article

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