Chilling effects during maize tassel development and the lack of compensational plasticity

Crop Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1852-1858

  Tranel, Dean ^a   Knapp, Allen ^b   Perdomo, Antonio ^c  

^a PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70349198948     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2008.10.0593     Document Type: Article

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