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Registration Of N547 Maize Germplasm Line, Nora E. D'Croz-Mason, John E. Foster, Stephen C. Mason
Registration Of N547 Maize Germplasm Line, Nora E. D'Croz-Mason, John E. Foster, Stephen C. Mason
Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications
N547 germplasm line (Reg. no. GP-367, PI 615526) was released by the Agriculture Research Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, on 24 Aug. 1999. N547 is a yellow endosperm maize inbred germplasm with resistance to stalk and shank tunneling damage caused by the second generation of the European corn borer (ECB) Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner).
N547 was derived by selfing a selected full-sib family from MBITA, a tropical population developed by CIMMYT, Mexico. MBITA was created to recombine sources of resistance to temperate and subtropical stalk borers. These insects included ECB, southwestern corn borer (SWCB) Diatraea grandiosella …