Fig. 8

Schematic illustration of the experimental setup in 2016. Six cultivars, each of which had three rows, were planted with an identical row distance of 60 cm. Solid lines indicate two rows of maize for each cultivar that were tested and dashed lines indicate one row for backup and preventing targeted plants to be lodged during the test for the neighboring cultivar. The wind machine can be moved along west–east direction along four lead rails. Orange, blue, yellow, red, black and purple represent ZD958, JD38, XD20, XY335, JK665 and JK968