TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Mohamed Rabie Ewies AU - Ahmed Medhat Mohamed Alnaggar , AU - Mohamed Reda Ali Shabana , TI - Corn improvement for tolerance to high plant densities / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Mohamed Rabie Ewies , KW - GCA KW - Maize KW - Tolerance N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Agronomy; Issued also as CD N2 - Modern hybrids of maize in North America and Europe exhibit a linear increase in grain yield per unit area by increasing population density up to more than 100,000 plants ha⁻¹, as a result of breeding for tolerance to high density. In contrast, modern Egyptian maize hybrids are adapted to low plant density (ca. 57,000 plants ha⁻¹) the same used for old open-pollinated and synthetic varieties UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -