Journal of Taiwan Agricultural Research

Author:Guang-Jauh Shieh

Abstract:

    Eight inbred lines derived from Tainan-white populations, planted at Wufeng, at spring, fall, and winter crop seasons of 1997. The sibmating seeds were used to study the pericarp characteristics. The result of the analysis of variance showed that the crop seasons and genotypes were significant difference across the four crop seasons for most pericarp characteristics, excepted crop season on the difference between germinal and abgerminal. And the crop season x genotype interaction were not significant difference at pericarp thickness and content. The performance of kernel weight of inbred lines at fall and winter was larger than the spring. The pericarp thickness of inbred lines has thinner pericarp at fall than the winter and spring. Sometimes, at fall crop season, the inbred lines possess lower pericarp content. The B inbred line has thinner pericarp and lower content, and the G and E inbred lines has thicker pericarp and most pericarp contents.

Key words:Maize, Crop season, Pericarp thickness

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