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Table 2. Agronomic performance of non-tissue cultured controls and plants regenerated
from original and improved media.
Parental line Media
Heading
date
(julian)
Height
(cm)
Lodging
(%)
Yield
(bu/ac)
Test
weight
(#/bu)
% Plump
Kernels
90Ab321 Improved 167 56.1 24.4 86.9 53.2 86.1
90Ab321 Original 165 59.0 9.7 89.1 53.5 88.9
90Ab321 control 165 58.0 14.4 90.7 53.1 87.8
Baronesse Improved 174 65.8 34.7 78.7 51.8 77.6
Baronesse Original 174 65.6 34.1 87.0 52.3 82.5
Baronesse control 173 63.4 31.3 88.0 52.4 83.1
Colter Improved 168 69.3 17.2 108.9 51.3 67.8
Colter Original 168 65.3 16.9 101.7 51.0 69.9
Colter control 167 67.4 5.6 110.7 52.2 78.0
Conlon Improved 168 68.8 6.9 99.9 53.9 96.2
Conlon Original 168 66.6 3.4 98.8 54.0 97.6
Conlon control 170 70.3 4.2 103.2 54.8 98.0
Crystal Improved 175 69.9 25.6 101.2 53.4 81.2
Crystal Original 175 70.6 16.3 100.9 53.9 83.2
Crystal control 173 72.3 29.4 101.9 53.4 78.3
Golden Promise Improved 175 57.5 30.0 78.0 51.2 60.9
Golden Promise Original 175 58.1 37.2 77.7 50.6 52.9
Golden Promise control 175 54.6 32.5 73.5 50.9 55.3
Morex Improved 169 70.5 26.6 84.8 50.1 69.5
Morex Original 169 72.9 30.6 79.7 49.6 71.3
Morex control 168 72.5 9.4 92.6 51.2 82.9
ND15477 Improved 169 70.3 6.3 98.7 52.0 81.7
ND15477 Original 170 71.6 3.1 100.0 52.6 82.0
ND15477 control 169 71.3 7.5 107.6 52.5 86.7
mean of all lines Improved 171 66.0 21.4 92.0 52.1 77.7
mean of all lines Original 170 66.2 18.9 91.8 52.2 78.4
mean of all lines control 170 65.9 17.2 95.6 52.4 80.1