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Five weekly measurements with an airplane mounted multispectral camera starting at anthesis were used to estimate the area under the curve (AUC) for vegetation indices during that period; the indices were compared to the AUC (AUCSEN) for three visual senescence scores taken two, four, and six weeks after flowering and a novel stay-green trait (AUC for stay-green; AUCSG) derived from AUCSEN by correcting for the flowering date. Heat and combined heat and drought stress reduced grain yield by 53% and 82% (relative to non-stress trials reported elsewhere) for trials carried out in 2014 and 2015, respectively, going along with lower AUCSG in 2014. The AUCSG was consistently correlated with grain yield across trials and years, reaching correlation coefficients of 0.55 and 0.56 for 2014 and 2015, respectively. The AUC for different vegetative indices, AUCNDVI (rgGY = 0.62; rgAUCSG = 0.72), AUCHBSI (rgGY = 0.64; rgAUCSG = 0.71), AUCGRE (rgGY = 0.57; rgAUCSG = 0.61), and AUCCWMI (rgGY = 0.63; rgAUCSG = 0.75), were associated with grain yield and stay-green across experiments and years. Due to its good correlation with grain yield and stay-green across environments, we propose AUCNDVI for use as an indicator for stay-green and a long grain filling. The trait AUCNDVI can be used in addition to grain yield to identify climate-resilient germplasm in tropical and subtropical regions to increase food security in a changing climate.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9030235","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,8]],"date-time":"2017-03-08T07:42:58Z","timestamp":1488958978000},"page":"235","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Stay-Green and Associated Vegetative Indices to Breed Maize Adapted to Heat and Combined Heat-Drought Stresses"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Diego","family":"Cerrudo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Agronom\u00eda, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 7620 Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina"},{"name":"Global Maize Program\u2014Physiology, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera M\u00e9xico Veracruz, Km 45, Texcoco 56237, Estado de Mexico, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5840-0803","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lorena","family":"Gonz\u00e1lez P\u00e9rez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"L. 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