Physiological and Morphological Features Determining the Performance of the Sorghum Landraces of Northern Nigeria

    Flower, D J (1996) Physiological and Morphological Features Determining the Performance of the Sorghum Landraces of Northern Nigeria. Experimental Agriculture, 32 (2). pp. 129-141. ISSN 1469-4441

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    Abstract

    Sorghum landraces from contrasting districts of northern Nigeria were grown during the 1990 rainy season to describe their physiological and morphological features. Changes in their dry matter production and yield could be predicted from thermal time to flowering (based on response to a fixed daylength) and partitioning indices. Many other morphological and physiological features, such as light-extinction coefficient, light-use efficiency, plant height, leaf area and leaf number, were either stable or varied systematically with time to flowering. Grain yields of early maturing lines were limited by low light interception from flowering to physiological maturity and those of later maturing lines by highly site-specific drought stress.

    Item Type: Article
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    Subjects: Mandate crops > Sorghum
    Depositing User: Mr Charan Sai Ch
    Date Deposited: 06 Dec 2011 11:21
    Last Modified: 14 Sep 2013 12:01
    URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3294
    Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0014479700026041
    Projects: UNSPECIFIED
    Funders: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Government of Italy
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