Growing sorghum in all day lengths

cg.contributor.affiliationTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperationen
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.urlhttp://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta01e/en
cg.issn1011-0054en
cg.journalSporeen
cg.number1en
cg.placeWageningenen
cg.subject.ctaCROPSen
dc.contributor.authorTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperationen
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-02T13:13:04Zen
dc.date.available2014-10-02T13:13:04Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/44423
dc.titleGrowing sorghum in all day lengthsen
dcterms.abstractScientists at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India are busy improving six sorghum varieties from Nigeria so that they do not depend on specific periods of sunlight to produce grain. Technically...en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCTA. 1986. Growing sorghum in all day lengths. Spore 1. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.en
dcterms.descriptionScientists at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India are busy improving six sorghum varieties from Nigeria so that they do not depend on specific periods of sunlight to produce grain. Technically speaking, the plants are made 'photoperiod-insensitive': they flower and produce grain no matter how many hours of sunlight are available whilst they are growing. ICRISAT's breeders have already developed photo-period-insensitive plants from Sudanese and Ethiopian varieties. They are using techniques based on those originally developed at Texas A & M University. Photoperiod-insensitive lines are easier for breeders to work with because they flower after a set number of days no matter what time of the year they are planteden
dcterms.isPartOfSporeen
dcterms.issued1986
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperationen
dcterms.typeNews Item

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