Article
Chemical and genetic attributes of a maize-silk olfactory trait.
1997-01-01
Abstract excerpt
A maize inbred extracted from an Iowa synthetic ("BSBB") produces silks with an odor that is easily detectable by most humans. The inbred did not demonstrate greater field resistance to ear-feeding by insects than sister lines from the same synthetic. The odorous trait was determined to be inherited as a recessive trait but could not be positively associated with a single gene when the odorous line was crossed wit...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1ba78550-5087-5bb3-86cc-978c10b50ea5
- DOI
- 10.1021/jf960403b