digitS'
Garden Master
Is this how it works?
It's kind of a guess that breeding hybrid corn is a fairly simple matter since the pollen producing tassels are located at the top of the plants, ears with silk are some distance down the stalks. Someone with more knowledge should correct me if my thinking is not right. @seedcorn ?
Pollen producing plants could be left alone. The seed produced on those plants would only be useful for corn hybridization. They might occupy every other row in the field.
Seed production would take place on plants with the tassels removed. In a field of corn grown for seed, rows of those plants would have their tassels cut off. Ears of seed would develop on those plants in a normal way. That seed will be harvested and sold.
Steve
It's kind of a guess that breeding hybrid corn is a fairly simple matter since the pollen producing tassels are located at the top of the plants, ears with silk are some distance down the stalks. Someone with more knowledge should correct me if my thinking is not right. @seedcorn ?
Pollen producing plants could be left alone. The seed produced on those plants would only be useful for corn hybridization. They might occupy every other row in the field.
Seed production would take place on plants with the tassels removed. In a field of corn grown for seed, rows of those plants would have their tassels cut off. Ears of seed would develop on those plants in a normal way. That seed will be harvested and sold.
Steve