Tag: Hirsch

Variability in oil composition in maize

Understanding the variation that exists in oil characteristics is an important step in determining the possibility of developing higher value products such as renewable food, fuel, plastics, or other products.

Phenomics tools for corn breeding and management decisions

Measuring phenotypes is at the core of corn breeding and management recommendation practices. Due to the time and labor intensive nature of manually phenotyping plants, the data used for these efforts has typically focused only on end of season traits such as plant height, ear height, and yield.