Physiological mechanisms underlying heterosis for shade tolerance in Maize

Crop Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1817-1826

  Liu, Weidong ^a   Tollenaar, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon exchange rate; CER; Harvest index; HI; LAI; Leaf area index; Midparent heterosis; MPH; PGR; Photosynthetic photo fl ux density; Plant growth rate; PPFD; R S; Root shoot ratio; TDM; Total plant dry matter

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70349205414     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2008.07.0423     Document Type: Article

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