Browsing Plant Sciences electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Department "Agronomy (MU)"
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Photoperiodic time measurement and seasonal adaptation of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella Dyar (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)"Photoperiodism is an adaptation which enables organisms to maintain maximum reproductive and survival efficiency under periodically changing environmental conditions. Since daylength is astronomically stable, it gives ...