“…Researches on maize in recent years are usually specific for the relationship between physiological quality and the factors that affect it such as storage components (Nerling et al, 2018;Abreu et al, 2016;Coelho, 2016a), enzymes (Oliveira et al, 2015;Santos et al, 2016;Silva-Neta et al, 2015;Lopes et al, 2017;Diniz et al, 2018), heterosis (Nerling et al, 2013;Oliveira et al, 2015;Coelho, 2016a;Coelho, 2016b;Abreu et al, 2018) and image analysis (Pinto et al, 2015;Dias et al, 2015;Castan et al, 2018;Medeiros et al, 2018).…”