Silks (IMAGE)

Iowa State University

Silks

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Often for self-pollination of doubled haploid plants, male and female flowering is not synchronized. When that happens, the tips of husks (around the future ear) need to be removed to allow pollination, even though the silks are not yet out.

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Fred Engstrom

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