| CIMMYT's Latin America product pipeline Tropical highlands yellow (LatAmTHY) focuses on developing early maturing, yellow grain, high-yielding maize hybrids, resistant to TLB, rust and ear rots, and suitable for feed use in tropical rainfed dry/wet high-altitude areas in Latin America. |
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General Information |
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Adaptation/Agroecological zone |
2000 - 2800m above sea level |
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Type of product |
Three-way hybrid |
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Grain Characteristics |
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Grain color |
Yellow |
| Grain yield |
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Grain texture |
Dent |
| Grain yield under optimum conditions |
10.0 t/ha |
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| Grain yield on-farm |
7.8 t/ha |
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Biotic Stress Performance |
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Turcicum leaf blight (TLB) (1-9) |
2.9 |
| Agronomic Characteristics |
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Rust (1-9) |
4.1 |
| Maturity |
210 DAP |
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Diseases are scored on 1-9 scale, where 1 = Highly resistant; 5 = Tolerant; 9 = Highly susceptible |
| Plant height |
217 cm |
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| Ear height |
109 cm |
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| Bad husk cover |
3.7% |
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Seed Production Characteristics |
| Ear rot |
7.7% |
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Female seed yield |
8.4 t/ha |
| Root loging |
3.7% |
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Male seed yield |
5.2 t/ha |
| Stalk lodging |
8.9% |
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Nicking |
-4 days |
| Anther-silking interval |
2 days |
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| Comments |
Product information is based on data from the Hybrids Testing Network, MasAgro Project, 45 sites On-Farm (2017) Trials.
Abbreviations:
DAP = days after planting
TLB = Turcicum leaf blight |
