CSTHY18103

 

CIMMYT's Latin America product pipeline Tropical Mid-altitude (LatAmTM) focuses on developing intermediate maturing, white and yellow  grain, high-yielding maize hybrids that are drought tolerant, resistant to GLS and ear rots, and are suitable for food and feed use in tropical rainfed dry/wet mid-altitude areas in Latin America.   General Information   Adaptation/Agroecological zone 1200 - 1800m above sea level   Type of product Three-way hybrid         Grain Characteristics       Grain color Yellow Abiotic Stress Performance   Grain texture Semi-Flint Grain yield on-farm 8.47 t/ha       Grain yield under drought stress 3.01 t/ha   Biotic Stress Performance       Turcicum leaf blight (TLB) (1-9) 3.1 Agronomic Characteristics   Grey leaf spot (GLS) (1-9) 3.0 Plant height 236 cm   Maydis leaf blight (MLB) (1-9) 3.0 Ear height 115 cm   Rust (1-9) 3.3 Bad husk cover 4.6%   Diseases are scored on 1-9 scale, where 1 = Highly resistant; 5 = Tolerant; 9 = Highly susceptible Ear rot  3.7%   Root lodging 3.9%       Stalk lodging 6.1%   Seed Production Characteristics Anther-silking interval 0.58 days   Female seed yield  5.2 t/ha       Male seed yield  1.2 t/ha Comments   Nicking -4 days Product information is based on data from the Hybrids Testing Network, MasAgro Project, 41 sites On-Farm (2019) Trials.

Abbreviations:
DAP = days after planting
TLB = Turcicum leaf blight
GLS = Grey leaf spot
MLB = Maydis leaf blight