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Genetic analysis of drought tolerance in tropical maize

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Mexico, DF (Mexico) : CIMMYT, 2004.Description: 3 pagesISBN:
  • 970-648-124-9
Subject(s): In: Resilient Crops for Water Limited Environments: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cuernavaca, Mexico, 24-28 May 2004 p. 231-233Summary: Drought stress is evenly distributed across the world's major maize production regions and is a particularly savere problem for slightly more than one-fifth of the tropical and subtropical maize planted in developing countries (Pingali and Pandey, 2000). Maize is unusually susceptible to drought around the flowering period. Drought tolerance is closely associated with a short anthesis-silking interval (ASI), reduced kernel barrenness (Chapman and Edmeades, 1999), increased growth rates of ovaries (Bertrán et al., 2003) and the stay-green characteristics (Sanchez et al., 2002).
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Drought stress is evenly distributed across the world's major maize production regions and is a particularly savere problem for slightly more than one-fifth of the tropical and subtropical maize planted in developing countries (Pingali and Pandey, 2000). Maize is unusually susceptible to drought around the flowering period. Drought tolerance is closely associated with a short anthesis-silking interval (ASI), reduced kernel barrenness (Chapman and Edmeades, 1999), increased growth rates of ovaries (Bertrán et al., 2003) and the stay-green characteristics (Sanchez et al., 2002).

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