At 3:19 PM +0100 9/12/00, David Weber wrote:
>Hi Peggy,
>>I believe you are seeing a tassel segment emerging from the end of
>the ear. Some of the genetic stocks that I work with tend to
>frequently do this. There is a single tassel branch that emerges
>from the end of the ear. I am not sure if it ever produces
>functional pollen.
I've successfully performed pollinations using pollen collected from
such "ear tassels".
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