The effect of drought on photosynthetic and transpiration rates in juvenile plants of maize

Abstract

Photosynthetic and transpiration rates were analyzed in juvenile plants of 5 inbred and 10 hybrid genotypes of maize subjected to water deficit.

Keywords

• photosynthesis
• transpiration
• maize
• inbreds
• hybrids
• genotypes
• intraspecific variability
• drought
• stress