There were signi®cant dierences between varieties at all dates, except at 51 weeks after planting, indicating that the genotypes represented a wide range of ripening patterns.
Sixty-four sugarcane genotypes with contrasting ripening behaviour were grown in a quadruple-lattice design and ordinary logistic curves were shown to give the best ®t between stalk height and time.
Mediated by elite goals, these conditions ripened the possibility of forming a new issue and increased the public receptivity to the original argument voiced in civil rights debates.
Considerable effort was made to harvest all seeds at the final stage of ripening by visiting sites each day after the perigynia had turned to a completely brown colour.
We do not know if inherent baseline strength is important and if a cerclage can provide the structural support to prevent softening and ripening from occurring.
Selection for precocity was applied by stopping any watering when first fruits ripened in either of the two metapopulations within a selection and population size treatment.
The technique, applied to the analysis of dry matter accumulation, clearly represented the basipetal succession of asynchronous grain ripening on a panicle.
However, ripening caryopses contain several living tissues in addition to the aleurone layer.
