Resumen

AVILA PERCHES, Miguel Ángel; ARELLANO VAZQUEZ, José Luis; VIRGEN VARGAS, Juan  y  GAMEZ VAZQUEZ, Alfredo Josué. H-52 maize hybrid for the central highlands of Mexico. Agric. Téc. Méx [online]. 2009, vol.35, n.2, pp.237-240. ISSN 0568-2517.

In the Central Highlands of Mexico, above 2 200 m in altitude, corn is an important crop sown in 1.5 million ha. H-52 is a new corn hybrid released by the National Research Institute for Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP) for rainfall and rainfall plus supplemental irrigation in the State of Mexico. H-52 is a three-way hybrid that includes germplasm from landraces collected at several states in Central Mexico. Experimental yield obtained in the region with H-52 varied from 9.0 to 12.0 t ha^-1 when planted in april. In addition H 52 is resistant to ear-rot elicited by Fusarium.

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