Managing maize pollen dispersal and out-crossing

Abstract

Coupling Time to Silking With Plant Growth Rate in Maize 108 I would like to recognize and gratefully thank many people who helped me achieve this project. Primary and principal, to my family, Pilar and friends, who provided essential emotional support and encouragement. Additionally, I would like to extend personal thanks to Mark Westgate for his patience, guidance and support during this project. The committee members have also provided important input and assistance, my appreciation to Susana Goggi, Raymond Arritt and Lance Gibson. Thanks to Horan BioProduction Inc. and Syngenta Seeds Inc., for providing me the opportunity of working on their fields.

Assessment of Yield and Nutritional Qualities of Local and Improved Maize Varieties Cultivated in Wukari and Environement of the Nigerian Guinea Savanna Agro-Ecology

“…The materials consisted of two varieties of maize; quality protein maize (Oba super 2 pollination was also replicated four times. In all the blocks, of all treatments, five (5) plants stands were randomly selected for tagged for data collection. And the dimension of block is 4m by 3.6m which give 14.4m 2 , and 2m space in between the blocks and 2m space also for border rows.…”

Numerical simulations of maize pollen dispersal

“…Predicted pollen deposition was compared with field experiment observations near Rockwell City, Iowa on 9, 10, and 14 August 2005. The field experiment is described in detail in Astini (2007) and summarized here. At each site, ~100 m by 100 m maize fields of ~1.7 m dwarf variety were planted with a density of ~6.8 x 10 4 ha -1 in the center of large soybean field with average plant height of ~0.8 m. An additional ~6 m wide sorghum border was placed around one of the fields.…”

“…, as well as in dispersion applications of beads and spores (e.g. , 2007. The Lagrangian frame of reference moves with a virtual fluid particle, in contrast with the Eulerian frame of reference, which is fixed in space.…”