Cultivation of sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) moench) and determination of its harvest time to make use as the raw material for fermentation, practiced during rainy season in dry land of Indonesia

Plant Production Science

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 442-448

  Tsuchihashi, Naoyuki ^a   Goto, Yusuke ^b  

^a AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Dry land; Fermentation; Harvest time; Indonesia; Monosodium glutamate; Rainy season; Sweet sorghum

Indexed keywords

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 11144350213     PISSN: 1343943X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1626/pps.7.442     Document Type: Article

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