Ecogeographical distribution of wild, weedy and cultivated Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench in Kenya: Implications for conservation and crop-to-wild gene flow

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-253

  Mutegi, Evans ^a,b   Sagnard, Fabrice ^a,c   Muraya, Moses ^e   Kanyenji, Ben ^b   Rono, Bernard ^b   Mwongera, Caroline ^a   Marangu, Charles ^b   Kamau, Joseph ^b   Parzies, Heiko ^e   de Villiers, Santie ^a   Semagn, Kassa ^a,d   Traoré, Pierre Sibiry ^f   Labuschagne, Maryke ^g  

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

^b KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d CIMMYT   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Environmental risk assessment; Genetic resources; Germplasm conservation; GIS; Introgression; Morphological diversity; Sorghum bicolor

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AUTECOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROP PLANT; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC RESOURCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; INTROGRESSION; MORPHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SORGHUM; WILD POPULATION;

KENYA;

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 75549090925     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-009-9466-7     Document Type: Article

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