CLTHW17115

CIMMYT's Latin America product pipeline Tropical Lowland (LatAmTLW) focuses on developing intermediate maturing, white grain, high-yielding maize hybrids that are drought tolerant, resistant to TSC, MLB and ear rots, and are suitable for food use in tropical rainfed dry/wet low-altitude areas in Latin America.   General Information   Adaptation/Agroecological zone 0 - 1000m above sea level   Type of product Three-way Cross         Grain Characteristics       Grain color White Grain Yield   Grain texture Semi-flint Grain yield under optimum conditions 8.8 t/ha       Grain yield on-farm 6.5 t/ha   Biotic Stress Performance Grain yield under drought stress 3.9 t/ha   Maydis leaf blight (MLB) (1-9) 3.0       Tar Spot Complex (TSC) (1-9) 2.8 Agronomic Characteristics   Diseases are scored on 1-9 scale, where 1 = Highly resistant; 5 = Tolerant; 9 = Highly susceptible Maturity 120 DAP   Plant height 262 cm       Ear height 138 cm   Seed Production Characteristics Bad husk cover 8.1%   Female seed yield  8.1 t/ha Ear rot  8.5%   Male seed yield  3.4 t/ha Root lodging 4.6%   Nicking  - 6 days Stalk lodging 8.0%       Anther-silking interval 0.5 days                 Comments Product information is based on data from Seed Production Research Trials and the Hybrids Testing Network, MasAgro Project, 32 sites On-Farm (2019) Trials.

Abbreviations:
DAP = days after planting
TSC = Tar Spot Complex
MLB = Maydis leaf blight