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Effect of photoperiod on the development of inflorescences in white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata)
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In experiments in 2001 to 2003, 50-day-old plants of four varieties of white Guinea yam (D. rotundata) were exposed to 10 h (short-day) day length for 15 days, 14 h for 30 days or constant 24 h, with natural day length as the control. Under natural day length the male varieties flowered earlier than the female. Short day-length delayed and reduced the intensity of development of inflorescences, but the response to the 14 h and 24 h treatments differed between the varieties.
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/3370Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ts.6