eprintid: 10267
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2017-11-06 08:55:38
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Ashok Kumar, A
icrisatcreators_name: Ashok Kumar, A
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
country: India
title: Botany, Taxonomy and Breeding
ispublished: pub
subjects: PG2
subjects: PLB1
subjects: s1.4
subjects: s20302
divisions: CRPS2
full_text_status: restricted
note: Sorghum, Yield and quality, Botany, Floral biology, Taxonomy, Racial distribution, Breeding, Sorghum Improvement
abstract: Sorghum is one of the most important cereal crops grown in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) of Asia, Africa, and the Americas for its food, feed, fodder, and fuel value. Sorghum production is constrained by several biotic and abiotic stresses. Genetic enhancement of sorghum for grain and stover yield, nutritional quality, and plant defense traits (abiotic and biotic) that stabilize the crop performance requires thorough knowledge of crop botany, diversity, and genetics so as to deploy appropriate crop-breeding strategies. Sorghum is one of the well-understood species in terms of botany, floral biology, and genetic diversity. Both cultivated and wild forms are available in sorghum, which are well distributed in Africa, its center of origin, and in the rest of the world. This chapter describes the botany, floral biology, and classification of sorghum and their implications to the breeding methods to be used. Also this chapter presents how the understanding of botany and taxonomy can be effectively used for improving sorghum yield and nutritional quality traits.
date: 2016
date_type: published
publisher: Springer International Publishing
pagerange: 27-45
pages: 284
id_number: 10.1007/978-3-319-47789-3_2
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-319-47789-3
issn: 2199-4781
book_title: The Sorghum Genome
editors_name: Rakshit, S
editors_name: Wang, Y H
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47789-3_2
citation:   Ashok Kumar, A  (2016) Botany, Taxonomy and Breeding.   In:  The Sorghum Genome.   Springer International Publishing, pp. 27-45.  ISBN 978-3-319-47789-3     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10267/1/Botany%2C%20Taxonomy%20and%20Breeding.pdf