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why can I grow 62 lb corn and only 58 lb soybeans?
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Mlebrun
Posted 11/8/2012 10:56 (#2685764 - in reply to #2685596)
Subject: RE: plant physiology and genetics


SW MN and Gold Canyon AZ
tw usually doesn't vary much in beans. All it does it add to confusion when looking at plots, I catch myself looking at TW column sometimes and thinking its the yield column. I normally don't even write down TW on beans.
Even TW on corn can cause confusion on plots because the dryer the corn is the higher the TW. So you can;t compare 15% corn to 21% corn TW unless you give it some fudge factor. Its the TW at 15% that matters if you want to compare apples to apples.
Soybeans breeders want yield and don;t focus on TW or seed size for that matter. Both are irrelevent to yield.
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