Ethnolinguistic structuring of sorghum genetic diversity in Africa and the role of local seed systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 14100-14105

  Westengen, Ola T ^a   Okongo, Mark Atam ^b   Onek, Leo ^c   Berg, Trygve ^d   Upadhyaya, Hari ^e,f,g   Birkeland, Siri ^a   Khalsa, Siri Dharma Kaur ^a   Ring, Kristoffer H ^a   Stenseth, Nils C ^a   Brysting, Anne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Ministry of Agriculture   (SSD)

^c Juba University ^*  (SSD)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^e INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^f KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural selection; Genetic resources; Social ecological adaptation

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA;

AFRICA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECOSYSTEM; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PLANT SEED; SORGHUM;

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DNA, PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEEDS; SORGHUM;

EID: 84907584820     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1401646111     Document Type: Article

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