Evaluation location: Hawaii, United States
Maize increases of GEM accessions from North Carolina made by M. Krakowsky on Maui, Hawaii. Received February 18, 2026. Nursery was planted on 16-OCT-2025 and was harvest about 10-FEB-2026. Approximately 32 kernels were planted in 6.1 meter (20 foot) rows. The number of rows varied by the amount of kernels available and to provide as close to the optimum of 100 ear harvested population as possible. Plants were sib pollinated in a modified chain cross method.
M. Krakowsky instructed grower to pollinate only within the row using males only once