Reversal of dormancy in switchgrass with low-light photoperiod extension

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-144

  Van Esbroeck, G A ^a   Hussey, M A ^a   Sanderson, M A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy feedstock; Panicum virgatum; Photoperiod effects; Warm season grass

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CULTIVATION; GREENHOUSES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

PHOTOPERIOD EXTENSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOENERGETICS; DORMANCY; GRASS; GROWTH RESPONSE; PHOTOPERIOD;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; DORMANCY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LATITUDE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT YIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEDLING; TILLAGE; WEIGHT; WINTER;

(NORTH); UNITED STATES;

CADDO; PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 0142226912     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8524(03)00178-0     Document Type: Article

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