Overcoming phosphorus deficiency overcoming phosphorus deficiency in West African pearl millet and sorghum production systems: Promising options for crop improvement

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue September, 2016, Pages

  Gemenet, Dorcus C ^a   Leiser, Willmar L ^b   Beggi, Francesca ^c   Herrmann, Ludger H ^b   Vadez, Vincent ^d   Rattunde, Henry F W ^e,f   Weltzien, Eva ^e,f   Hash, Charles T ^g   Buerkert, Andreas ^h   Haussmann, Bettina I G ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics Mali   (Germany)

^g International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics   (Niger)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Low P tolerance; Pearl millet; Phosphorus use efficiency; Sahel; Sorghum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988579027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01389     Document Type: Article

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