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Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

COBc1-A NEW BABY CORN COMPOSITE FOR TAMIL NADU

Volume : 85
Issue: Oct-dec
Pages: 644 - 645
Published: July 01, 2023
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Abstract


BC 2, is a baby corn composite suitable for irrigated and rainfed situations. Each plant can yield 2 to 3 cobs and the tender cobs can be harvested between 50 and 65 days after sowing before fertilization. It has an yield potential of 8316 kg baby corn and 32.2 tonnes of green fodder per hectare. It is moderately resistant to sorghum downy mildew diseases and tolerant to major pest of maize. It possess high starch (7.1 per cent) and delightful sweet flavour (total sugars 1.3 per cent) than the local baby corn. It serve as a valuable nutritious energy source with the attractive standard size cob (9 to 10 cm) suited for export market and released as CoBc 1 (1988).

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644 - 645
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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CoBc 1 Baby corn Composite Fodder
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