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The drier the region, the fewer seminal roots the maize varieties cultivated there had on average (black figure; the pie chart shows the proportion of varieties with up to one seminal root in yellow, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Sugar-depleted excised maize (Zea mays L.) root tips were used to study the kinetics and the specificity of hexose uptake. It was found that ...

In just about every corner of the globe, maize is an essential crop. Americans, who call it corn, dedicate more than 90 million acres to it — roughly the same size as the entire state of Montana. But ...

Figure 1: Photomicrographs of the Pratylenchus spp. identified in New Zealand maize fields;A- heat-killed female of Morphospecies 1 (slightly ventrally curved); B- heat-killed female ofMorphospecies 2 ...

The coming weeks will see large acreages of land throughout the UK planted out in forage maize, writes Richard Halleron.

Maize can grow successfully in very different local conditions. An international study headed by the University of Bonn has now demonstrated the important role of the plant root system. The ...