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Observations on Factors Affecting Seed‐set with Inbred Strains of Dent Corn 1
Author(s) -
Tatum Loyd A.,
Kehr William R.
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1951.00021962004300060005x
Subject(s) - corporation , agricultural science , agricultural experiment station , library science , mathematics , agronomy , agriculture , political science , biology , computer science , geography , law , archaeology
INTERFERENCE with the pollination process has been recognized as one important way in which drought may affect corn plants. This has been pointed out by Martin (9) and Lonnquist and Jugenheimer (8). In spite of the importance of drought as a factor in corn production there have been few critical studies of the ways in which it prevents the normal functioning of the corn plant. Jenkins (4), Sayre (10), Haber (2), Heyne and Brunson (3), and Lonnquist and Jugenheimer (8) have shown that resistance to various manifestations of drought is an inherited character and that breeding offers a means of developing drought-resistant strains. Resistance to drought is one of the more important criteria of selection in the Great Plains area. Breeding operations would be more effi-