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Developing population-neutral maize hybrids is a fundamental breeding challenge.
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- development of population-neutral hybridse0
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e0“the development of population-neutral hybrids is a fundamental challenge for maize breeding.”
Title
Adapting maize crop to climate change
Ioannis S. Tokatlidis Agronomy for Sustainable Development 2012. doi:10.1007/s13593-012-0108-7
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Modern maize hybrids fail to meet productivity needs under diverse marginal conditions.
- Observation Breeding improved grain yield per area through stress tolerance.
- Observation Yield at low maize population densities has remained almost unchanged.
- Association Optimum maize plant population varies greatly across environments.
- Association The appropriate maize population rises with environmental yield potential.
- Observation Across 11 seasons, modeled yield potential ranged from 1,890 to 8,980 kg/ha.
- Observation Across 11 seasons, modeled optimum population ranged from 4.56 to 10.2 plants/m 2.
- Observation Using the population optimal in the most favorable season was computed to cause 100% yield loss in the driest season.
- Recommendation Variable-yielding environments require variable optimum maize populations.
- Recommendation Honeycomb breeding is proposed to pursue population-neutral hybrids.