Adaptation of sorghum: Characterisation of genotypic flowering responses to temperature and photoperiod

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 900-911

  Craufurd, P Q ^a   Mahalakshmi, V ^b   Bidinger, F R ^b   Mukuru, S Z ^c   Chantereau, J ^d   Omanga, P A ^e   Qi, A ^a   Roberts, E H ^a   Ellis, R H ^a   Summerfield, R J ^a   Hammer, G L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Kenya)

^d INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Mali)

^e NDFRC Katumani ^*  (Kenya)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Flowering; Photoperiod; Sorghum bicolor; Temperature

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; GENOTYPE; GERMPLASM; INDIA; KENYA; MODEL; PHOTOPERIODICITY; STRESS TOLERANCE; TEMPERATURE;

SORGHUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 0032854053     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001220051311     Document Type: Article

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