Table 2. Average days to flowering of pollen donor (yellow-kernel maize) and pollen recipient (white-kernel maize) during pollination at each site.
City and State | Pollen donor | Pollen recipient | Anthesis/silking overlap (days) | ||
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Days to anthesis | Duration of anthesis | Days to silking | Duration of silking | ||
Ciudad Constitución, Baja California Sur | 93 | 12 | 94 | 21 | 11 |
Mocorito-Pericos, Sinaloa | 85 | 10 | 84 | 12 | 10 |
Ciudad Obregón, Sonora | 80 | 12 | 80 | 7 | 7 |
Las Bombas, Chihuahua | 49 | 14 | 49 | 7 | 7 |
Francisco I Madero, Coahuila | 57 | 12 | 60 | 12 | 9 |
Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas | 58 | 11 | 59 | 11 | 10 |
Culiacancito, Sinaloa | 89 | 12 | 90 | 12 | 11 |
Guasave, Sinaloa | 88 | 9 | 89 | 11 | 8 |
Average | 74.9 | 11.5 | 75.6 | 11.6 | 9.1 |