Delayed pollination and low availability of assimilates are major factors causing maize kernel abortion

Manually delaying pollination in maize restricted kernel growth and induced abortion by suppressing cell wall invertase activity and repartitioning assimilates.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Botany

• Publication date

  2018-02-09

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/jxb/ery013PMID 29365129PMCID 5888920
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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