Com origem na América, pertence ao género Zea e à família Gramineae.
Planta anual de 1,5-3 m, raiz fasciculada (seminal, permanente e adventícia), talo ereto, grosso e maciço, folhas largas com nervo central marcado e alternas, flores masculinas em panícula terminal e flores femininas em inflorescências axiais e o fruto é uma cariopse, normalmente amarelo.
A sua procura em forma enlatada ou congelada industrial aumentou nos últimos anos e os maiores produtores são os Estados Unidos e a China.
Dose:
- 0.5 L/100 Kg seeds
Moment:
- Seed treatment.
Application purpose:
- Improves germination, as well as initial root development and therefore crop establishment.
Dose:
- 2 L/Ha
Moment:
- Before flowering.
Application purpose:
- Improves flowering, pollen quality and crop yields.
Dose:
- 3 - 4 L/Ha
Moment:
- During the filling of the cob.
Application purpose:
- Increases production by moving photoassimilates out of the leaves and facilitating the photosynthesis of new sugars.
Dose:
- 1 - 2 L/Ha
Moment:
- V2 - V4
Application purpose:
- Promotes root development.
- Maximizes resistance against stress.
Dose:
- 1 L/Ha
Moment:
- V6 - V8
Application purpose:
- Increases production through an improvement in the crops hormonal system.
Dose:
- 1 - 2 L/Ha
Moment:
- After any stress situation (frost, high temperatures, hails, herbicides, disease...).
- Also, mixed with aggressive herbicides and fungicides for the crop.
Application purpose:
- Blocks ethylene production.
- Recovering the plant’s hormonal balance and growth.
- Boosts resistance.