Coupling time to silking with plant growth rate in maize

Field Crops Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-85

  Borrás, Lucas ^a   Westgate, Mark E ^a   Astini, Juan P ^a   Echarte, Laura ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biomass partitioning; Maize; Phenology; Plant growth rate; Time to silking

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS;

BIOMASS PARTITIONING; PLANT BIOMASS; PLANT POPULATIONS; TIME TO SILKING;

CROPS;

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOWERING; GROWTH RATE; MAIZE; MATURATION; PHENOLOGY;

BIOMASS; CORN; GROWTH RATE; PHENOLOGY;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34247116832     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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