[Effects of planting density on the grain yield and source-sink characteristics of summer maize].

Taking high-yielding summer maize cultivars Zhengdan 958 (ZD 958) and Denghai 661 (DH 661) as test materials, this paper studied the effects of different planting density (22500, 45000, 67500, 90000, and 112500 plant x hm(-2)) on the grain yield and source-sink characteristics of the cultivars in four regions, i.e., Shandong Agricultural University, Wenkou, Yanzhou, and Laizhou.

[Study on the relationship between inheritance and immature embryo culturing capacity of maize inbreds].

The immature embryo culturing capacity of maize is crucially important to maize improvement by transgenic approach. The hereditary variation regularity of maize embryo culturing capacity is not very clear yet. The research aims to study the relationship between inheritance and immature embryo culturing capacity of maize inbreds.