Evidence that banana (Musa spp.), a tropical monocotyledon, has a facultative long-day response to photoperiod

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 867-878

  Fortescue, Jeanie A ^a   Turner, David W ^a   Romero, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Chiquita Brands   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

bunch emergence; flowering; genotypes; Musa acuminata; soil water deficit; temperature

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; DATA SET; EMERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOWER; FLOWERING; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; MONOCOTYLEDON; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANTATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER BUDGET;

LILIOPSIDA; MUSA; MUSA ACUMINATA;

EID: 80055084816     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP11128     Document Type: Article

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