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Vol. 52, Number 1, 2007
 
WALTON C. GALINAT:
AN AGGRESSIVE STUDENT OF
THE CORN PLANT AND ITS ORIGIN

Walton C. Galinat: an aggressive student of the corn plant and its origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The world surrounding Walton C. Galinat’s research: personalities, students, history, and

disputes. A tribute. J.I. Cohen, W.F. Tracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Racial diversity of maize in Brazil and adjacent areas. J.j. Sáchez G., M.M. Goodman,

C.W. Stuber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Inflorescence development in the teosinte Zea luxurians (Poaceae) and implication for the

Origin of maize inflorescences. A.R. Orr, M.D. Sundberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Urgent notice to all maize researchers: disappearance and extinction of the last wild teosinte population is more than half completed. A modest proposal for teosinte evolution and

conservation in situ: the Balsas, Guerrero, Mexico. G. Wilkes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



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B chromosome desynapsis in maize. T.A. Kato Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Effects of divergent selection for endosperm appearance in a sugary1 maize population.

W.F. Tracy, Y.-M. Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Tripsacum genetics: from observations along  a river to molecular genomics. C.A. Blakey,

D. Costich, V. Sokolov, M.N. Islam-Faridi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Inheritance of long husk leaves in maize. H.C. Ji, J.L. Brewbaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Effect of B chromosomes of induced and spontaneous mutation frequencies in maize.

D.F. Weber, M.J. Plewa, R. Feazel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Vol. 52, Number 2, 2007

CONTENTS

 

 

 

The flow of maize pollen in a designed field plot. J.W. Haegele, P.A. Peterson . . . . . . . . . . .

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Comparison between normal and waxy maize hybrids for Fusarium-toxin contamination in

NW Italy. M. Blandino, A. Reyneri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Characterization of maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm of Angola. T. Bige, C. Lorenzoni . . . . .

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On the meaning of Busbice’s prediction formula. J. Sahagún Castellanos, C. Villanueva

Verduzco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Phosphorus accumulation in maize grain is not influenced by Xenia (Zea mays L.). L.A.

Pletsch-Rivera, S.M. Kaeppler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Stress-adaptive changes in tropical maize (Zea mays L.) under excessive soil moisture stress.

P.H. Zaidi, P. Maniselvan, P. Yadav, A.K. Singh, R. Sultana, P. Dureja, R.P. Singh,

G. Srinivasan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



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Comparisons of four testers in evaluating 27 CIMMYT and Chinese maize populations.

M.S. Li, X.H. Li, L.W. Deng, D.G. Zhang, L. Bai, S.H. Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Genetic diversity and structure of the core collection for maize inbred lines in China. Y. Yu,

R. Wang, Y. Shi, Y. Song, T. Wang, Y. Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Corn borers (lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Crambidae) in Northwestern Spain: population

dynamics and distribution. P. Velasco, P. Revilla, L. Monetti, A. Butrón, A Ordás,

R.A. Malvar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



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Genetic variances and correlations in an early tropical white maize population after three

cycles of recurrent selection for Striga resistance. B. Badu-Apraku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Is there an alternate equation for calculating inbreeding in maize by equal massive

pollination? F. Márquez-Sánchez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Impact of early seed quality selection on maize inbreds and hybrids. A.S. Goggi, L. Pollak,

J. Golden, M. DeVries, G. McAndrews, K. Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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Imazethapyr resistance found in the material of the MRI, Zemun Polje, gene bank.

J. Vancetovic, M. Vidakovic, L. Stefanovic, M. Simic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


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