Wet, J.M.J.de and Harlan, J.R. and Kurmarohita, B. (1972) Origin and evolution of Guinea sorghums. East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal, 38 (4). pp. 114-119.
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Abstract
On grounds of comparative morphology and present-day distribution patterns, the most likely progenitor of cultivated sorghum is considered to be the widely distributed verticilliflorum-aethiopicum wild complex that extends across the African savanna. A possible area of initial sorghum domestication is the savanna between western Ethiopia and eastern Chad. The first domesticated sorghums probably resembled race Bicolor. Selections from early Bicolor gave rise to races Guinea, Caudatum and Durra. While Durra may have originated either in north-eastern Africa or in India, Guinea sorghums originated in West Africa.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Crop Evolution Lab, University of Illinois |
| Subjects: | Plant Production Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Mr. SanatKumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2012 08:36 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2012 08:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/5524 |
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