Detasseling
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detasseling-181-18113799
title:
Detasseling
text:
Detasseling corn is removing the pollen-producing flowers, the tassel, from the tops of corn (maize) plants and placing them on the ground. It is a form of pollination control, employed to cross-breed, or hybridize, two varieties of corn. Fields of corn that will be detasseled are planted with two varieties of corn. Removing the tassels from all the plants of one variety leaves the grain that is growing on those plants to be fertilized by the tassels of the other, resulting in a hybrid. In addit
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Removing male flowers from corn plants
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detasseling
date created:
2005-02-16T04:00:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T01:13:15Z
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