Handbook of maize
Subtitle: its biology
By: Jeff L. Bennetzen, Sarah C. Hake, editors.
Contributors: Bennetzen, Jeffrey L.; Hake, Sarah.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9780387794174
Subjects: Corn
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vegetative shoot meristems / Dave Jackson; title: Development of the inflorescences / Erik Vollbrecht and Robert J. Schmidt; title: The maize floral transition / Joseph Colasanti and Michael Muszynski; title: The maize male gametophyte / Patricia A. Bedinger and John E. Fowler; title: The maize megagametophyte / Matthew M.S. Evans and Ueli Grossniklaus; title: Patterning of the maize embryo and the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology / Judith Nardmann and Wolfgang Werr; title: Kernel biology / Michael J. Scanlon and Elizabeth M. Takacs; title: The maize root system: morphology, anatomy, and genetics / Frank Hochholdinger; title: Axial patterning of the maize leaf / Toshi M. Foster and Marja C.P. Timmermans; title: Cell biology of maize leaf development / Anne W. Sylvester and Laurie G. Smith; title: Light signal transduction networks in maize / Patrice G. Dubois and Thomas P. Brutnell; title: Maize disease resistance / Peter J. Balint-Kurti and Gurmukh S. Johal; title: Virus resistance / Margaret G. Redinbaugh and Richard C. Pratt; title: Genetics and biochemistry of insect resistance in maize / Michael D. McMullen, Monika Frey, And Jörg Degenhardt; title: Chilling stress in maize seedlings / Jörg Leipner and Peter Stamp; title: Drought tolerance in maize / Jean-Marcel Ribaut ... [et al.]; title: Responses to oxygen deprivation and potential for enhanced flooding tolerance in maize / Chalivendra C. Subbaiah and Martin M. Sachs; title: Maize Al tolerance / Leon V. Kochian ... [et al.]; title: Maize under phosphate limitation / Carlos Calderón-Vázquez ... [et al.]; title: Agronomic traits and maize modifications: nitrogen use efficiency / Hartwig H. Geiger; title: Seed phosphate / Victor Raboy; title: Seed starch synthesis / Martha James and Alan Myers; title: Heterosis / Patrick S. Schnable and Ruth A. Swanson-Wagner; title: Increasing yield / James B. Holland; title: The Illinois long-term selection experiment, related studies, and perspectives / Torbert Rocheford; title: QTL for agronomic traits in maize production / Roberto Tuberosa and Silvio Salvi; title: The Mexican landraces: description, classification and diversity / Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada, and Jaime Padilla; title: Production, breeding and process of maize in China / Jiansheng Li.