Electrolyte leakage and seed quality in a shrunken-2 population of maize selected for improved field emergence.
Male-sterile plants (ms6ms6) have smaller flowers (compared to normal type), reduced, shrunken anthers, degenerating microspore tissue imprisoned in locules and a lack of normal pollen in the anthers.
These seeds are shrunken and non-viable.
The surface has a shrunken appearance, and the epidermal cells are visible as depressions.
On later examinations most of the remaining pupae have always been found in a shrunken condition and covered with mould.
These latter seeds are extremely shrunken which is not apparent when viewed in the plane of the photograph.
Following cessation of larval feeding it became stretched and oval, with layers of empty and shrunken cells.
The pericarp of sh-2 maize is often fractured due to its shrunken nature, limiting its ability to perform these functions.
