date:Sep 26, 2012
d by drought, Thomison says. Did a hybrid yield well under drought stress because it genuinely possesses some drought resistance or because it 'escaped' the impact of high temperatures and drought by flowering before or after the worst of the stress? If it was the latter, then the hybrid's superior performance may be of limited value under different drought conditions in the future.
It's because of this potential variability that some farmers say they've avoided using plot data from this year's