Early competition shapes maize whole-plant development in mixed stands

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 641-653

  Zhu, Junqi ^a   Vos, Jan ^a   Van Der Werf, Wopke ^a   Van Der Putten, Peter E L ^a   Evers, Jochem B ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coordination of development; leaf development; phyllochron; plastochron; shade avoidance; wheat maize intercropping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COORDINATION OF DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LEAF DEVELOPMENT; LIGHT; MAIZE; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLLOCHRON; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; PLASTOCHRON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SHADE AVOIDANCE; SOIL; WHEAT; WHEAT-MAIZE INTERCROPPING.;

COORDINATION OF DEVELOPMENT; LEAF DEVELOPMENT; PHYLLOCHRON; PLASTOCHRON; SHADE AVOIDANCE; WHEAT-MAIZE INTERCROPPING.;

LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAVES; SOIL; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84893247168     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert408     Document Type: Article

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