Handbook of Maize: Its Biology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bennetzen, Jeff L. (Editor), Hake, Sarah C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Botany.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79418-1

Maize is one of the worlds highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture. The great adaptability and high yield of maize as a food, feed and forage crop have led to its production on a massive scale, with acreage expanding at the expense of other crops. Maize ha...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Vegetative shoot meristems
• Development of the Inflorescences
• The maize floral transition
• The maize male gametophyte
• The maize megagametophyte
• Patterning of the maize embryo and the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology
• Kernel biology
• The Maize Root System: Morphology, Anatomy and Genetics
• Axial patterning of the maize leaf
• Cell biology of maize leaf development
• Light Signal Transduction Networks in Maize
• Maize Disease Resistance
• Virus Resistance
• Genetics and Biochemistry of Insect Resistance in Maize
• Chilling stress in maize seedlings
• Drought tolerance in maize
• Responses to Oxygen Deprivation and Potential for Enhanced Flooding Tolerance in Maize
• Maize Al tolerance
• Maize Under Phosphate Limitation
• Nitrogen use efficiency
• Seed Phosphate
• Seed starch synthesis
• Heterosis
• Increasing yield
• The Illinois Long Term Selection Experiment, Related Studies, and Perspectives
• QTL for agronomic traits in maize production
• Production, Breeding and Process of Maize in China
• The Mexican Landraces: Description, Classification and Diversity.