Fig. 1.
Monthly recorded rainfall and temperature for the four years experiments (2012–2015). DAS: days after sowing, Tmax: maximum temperature, Tmin: minimum temperature. Inner graph represents the cumulative precipitation per maize development stage.0–20 DAS: germination stage, 21–34 DAS: active growth stage, 35–42 DAS: tasseling stage, 43–62 DAS: silking stage, 63–75 DAS: milking stage, 76–90 DAS: physiological maturity.