Use of field observations to characterise genotypic flowering responses to photoperiod and temperature: A soyabean exemplar

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 519-533

  Roberts, E H ^a   Qi, A ^a   Ellis, R H ^a   Summerfield, R J ^a   Lawn, R J ^b,d   Shanmugasundaram, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flowering; Glycine max; Photoperiod; Soyabean; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029831808     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00417943     Document Type: Article

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