With cooler weather, corn may look shorter but is more developed than it seems. Accurate growth staging is essential, ...

Corn, or maize, is a major crop in the United ... in which the compact bundle of developing leaves, or leaf whorls, of young seedlings are used for transformation in lieu of embryos from mature ...

The plant whorl is tightly wrapped and not opening. 4. There are gaps in the row where entire plants are missing. The impact of Pythium in a crop is particularly critical at about the V2 corn ...

But in this particular case it is related to the transition from a slow to a rapid growth conditions for corn plants. Leaves within the whorl do not unfurl (“twisted upper leaves”), producing ...

which has a rounded tip (Leaf 1 in Figure 1), and continues up to the "indicator leaf," which is the uppermost leaf that is 40-50 percent exposed from the whorl and whose tip points below a horizontal ...

Johnson and Legleiter also offered a list of helpful tips for avoiding herbicide crop injury: * Don't use contact herbicides right before rain or when there is heavy dew in order to avoid washing the ...

corn takes up 34 lb. of sulfur per acre ... but sulfur deficiency shows up in the newer growth—the top or whorl. That’s because, unlike nitrogen, sulfur is not mobile in the plant, so ...

E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), on the early-whorl to late-whorl stage of corn, Zea mays L., revealed that most larvae were found in the wrapped leaves of the whorl. Beta density function for ...

Corn growers can determine when their corn fields will tassel by checking how many leaves remain inside the whorl. According to Schwartz, a new leaf usually emerges every three days. Letters ...

Fall armyworm larvae are voracious feeders on leaves in the confined whorls of corn plants, and by necessity the insects defecate nearby in the crevasses where the leaves meet the stalks.