Abstract:Suitable plant density for the highest yield (SPDHY) and the characteristics of plant and ear were analysised, using 8 maize single-crosses. The resuts were that:
A. SPDHY was negatively correlatsd with leaf area, and positively correlated with leaf angle ard leaf orientation value. The value of the relationship coefficenths between SPDHY and the lower leaves of plant was low, but the value of the coefficients of SPDHY with blag leaf, average leaf area above the ear and of whole plant was high.
B. SPDHY was negatively correlated with kernal weight per ear, kernal number per ear, ear length and variation coefficients of 100-kernal weight, kernal weight per ear and kernal number per ear, positively correlated with 100-kernal weight, and was not correlated with variation coefficient of ear length.