Crop Science Grow Your Career with CSSA
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Published in Crop Sci 9:309-310 (1969)
© 1969 Crop Science Society of America
677 S. Segoe Rd., Madison, WI 53711 USA
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Evers, G. W.
Right arrow Articles by Bashaw, E. C.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Evers, G. W.
Right arrow Articles by Bashaw, E. C.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by Evers, G. W.
Right arrow Articles by Bashaw, E. C.

Seed Production Characteristics and Photoperiodic Responses in Buffelgrass, Cencbrus ciliaris L.1

Gerald W. Evers, E. C. Holt and E. C. Bashaw2

The effect of a 10-, 12-, and 14-hr photoperiod on the seed production characteristics of eight apomictic buffelgrass lines was studied. Inflorescences were produced earlier and in larger numbers under a 12-hr photoperiod than under a 10- or 14-hr photoperiod. Also, seed per inflorescence, and spikelets and seed per involucre were greater under the 12-hr photoperiod. The 14-hr photoperiod resulted in the latest and least inflorescence production but was the most favorable for production of involucres per inflorescence and inflorescence length. The eight buffelgrass lines varied in their response to the three photoperiods for inflorescence numbers and characteristics. The possibility of developing hybrids for seed production under photoperiods up to 14-hr is indicated.

Key Words: seed set • Inflorescene characteristics

1 Contribution from Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, College Station, Texas 77843. This paper is a portion of a thesis submitted by the senior author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.S. degree, Texas A&M University.

2 Graduate Research Assistant and Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, and Research Geneticist, Crops Research Division, ARS, USDA, College Station, Texas.

Received for publication September 26, 1968.




HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
The SCI Journals Agronomy Journal Vadose Zone Journal
Journal of Plant Registrations Soil Science Society of America Journal
Journal of Natural Resources
and Life Sciences Education		 Journal of
Environmental Quality
Copyright © 1969 by the Crop Science Society of America.