Collection and preliminary evaluation of sweet-stalk pearl millet (Pennisetum)
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Collection and preliminary evaluation of sweet-stalk pearl millet (Pennisetum)
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Creator |
Rao, S A
Mengesha, M H Subramanian, V |
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Millets
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Sweet stalk types of P. americanum were collected around Coimbatore and Madurai, in Tamil Nadu during a germplasm collecting expedition. The crop was cut before flowering for fodder and the ratoon crop used for grain and straw production. The sweet stalk types had long narrow leaf blades, profuse nodal tillering, short thin spikes and very small grains compared with the normal types. They could also be identified by chewing the mature stalks as at this stage they contained twice the amount of sugar as normal types
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The New York Botanical Garden Press
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Date |
1982
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Article
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application/pdf
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en
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http://oar.icrisat.org/7598/1/Economic%20Botany_36_3_286-290_1982.pdf
Rao, S A and Mengesha, M H and Subramanian, V (1982) Collection and preliminary evaluation of sweet-stalk pearl millet (Pennisetum). Economic Botany, 36 (3). pp. 286-290. ISSN 0013-0001 |
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