Method of breeding and producing seed corn

Details Method of breeding and producing seed corn Method of breeding and producing seed corn

1980-02-04

1980-12-09

Bagwill, Robert E.

Plant husbandry

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47DIG1, A01H 102

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042376521

ABSTRACT:
A method of breeding yellow dent hybrid seed corn by causing pollination of the silks of an ear other than the top ear of the corn plant with the resulting fertilization of the lower ear. The method is accomplished by causing the ear shoot at the top of the plant to abort before the silks emerge from that shoot, and then allowing a lower ear to produce silks and receive pollen from the male seed parent. Fertilization of the second or lower ear is then accomplished resulting in a corn plant that provides seed (F.sub.1) which will in turn produce a higher yield in the farmer's field. (F is the designation of generations of plants, F.sub.1 being the first filial generation.)

REFERENCES:
patent: 2753663 (1956-07-01), Jones
patent: 4051629 (1977-10-01), Galinat
Effect of non-pollination . . . , Russell et al., Crop Science, vol. 16, #2, Mar.-Apr. 1976.

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