Trends of grain yield and plant traits in Chinese maize cultivars from the 1950s to the 2000s

Euphytica

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-406

  Ci, Xiaoke ^a,b   Li, Mingshun ^a   Xu, Jiashun ^a   Lu, Zhenyu ^a   Bai, Pengfei ^a   Ru, Gaolin ^a   Liang, Xiaoling ^c   Zhang, Degui ^a   Li, Xinhai ^a   Bai, Li ^a   Xie, Chuanxiao ^a   Hao, Zhuanfang ^a   Zhang, Shihuang ^a   Dong, Shuting ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Grain yield; Maize (Zea mays L.); Plant traits

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84861231304     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: 15735060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-011-0560-5     Document Type: Article

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