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Complex interactions between developmental transitions, grain moisture, and quality traits highlight considerations for optimizing climate resilience. Finally, backcrossed inbred lines and mutants targeting quantitative trait loci were evaluated for impacts on carbon isotope discrimination, stomatal patterning, and gas exchange. Overlapping support implicates two intervals in mediating water dynamics through developmental and physiological mechanisms. Together, these objectives connect maize genomic diversity with validated gene effects and complex trait dissection to accelerate climate-resilient maize development. This research establishes resources to apply modern breeding techniques in popcorn, characterizes developmental and physiological genetic factors enabling adaptation, and identifies targets to optimize moisture dynamics and sustainable water use. 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