Timing, effect, and recovery from competition in corn development
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2012-06-11
Authors
Page, E.R.
Tollenaar, M.
Lee, E.A.
Lukens, L.
Swanton, C.J.
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This research would be beneficial to farmers, gardeners, and generally anyone or any business involved in agronomy as it helps to understand how to stop or decrease the impact of competition on crop production. As well, this study acknowledges the critical and sensitive periods of a plants development, especially in terms of when it can recover from competition of other plants.
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Clear Language Research Summaries are a project of the Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship (ICES) at the University of Guelph. Project partners include the Business Development Office (BDO), SPARK Program at the University of Guelph, and Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University. This project is part of the Pan-Canadian Research Impact Network. On the Web: www.csahs.uoguelph.ca/pps/clear_research
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Production agriculture, intraspecific com-petition, interspecific competition, corn, maize development, thinning, silking, seedling development, clear language research summary