An alternative approach for assessing grain-size variations in the mantle is to couple numerical models with experimentally derived flow laws and grain-size evolution models.
This study was designed to assess grain yield performance, endosperm modification, and protein quality and quantity under two contrasting soil nitrogen environments.
Because of their very good spatial resolution, orientation contrast (OC) images represent a useful starting point to develop an automated technique able to assess grain boundaries in a completely objective and reproducible way.
Pollen from the SALK_025090 homozygotes and the SALK_121507 heterozygotes stained with DAPI to assess grain morphology and FDA to check pollen grain viability, while pollen germination assays were also performed.
We assessed the grain yield and grain dry matter content (an indicator for early maturity) of 98 maize hybrids in multi-environment field trials.
To assess pollen grain viability, anthers and mature pollen grains from both the wild-type and mutant flowers were stained with Alexander's solution [ 26].
Detailed microstructural characterization is performed to assess the grain structure, surface morphology, and crystallographic growth texture of representative specimens.
Previous efforts to assess whole grain consumption in the French population have focused only on the number of servings of whole grain foods, without specifically quantifying absolute whole grain intake or differentiating whole grain sources.
The objectives were to assess the grain yield potential of early-maturing F1 QPM hybrids, estimate the general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) for grain yield and other agronomic traits and determine the relationship between grain yield and other agronomic traits of the QPM hybrids.
A field experiment to assess the grain yield, seasonal water use (WU), water use efficiency (WUE) and precipitation use efficiency (PUE) of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L). intercropped with cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L). on two tillage systems was conducted during the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 cropping seasons at the University of Venda (22°58′ S, 30°26′ E at 596 m above sea level).
