Phenotypic Changes in Grain Sorghum Over the Last Five Decades

Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 249-257

  Assefa, Y ^a   Staggenborg, S A ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought avoidance; Drought tolerance; Hybrid advancement; Morphology; Phenology; Physiology

Indexed keywords

CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT STRESS; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HYBRID; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RESOURCE USE; SORGHUM; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR;

EID: 79960332721     PISSN: 09312250     EISSN: 1439037X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-037X.2010.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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