TY - JOUR
AU - Huckabay, J. P.
AB - THE ORIGIN OF SORGHUM BZCOLOR. 11. DISTRIBUTION AND DOMESTICATION1 J. M. J. DE WET AND J. P. HUCKABAY Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater’ Received August 1, 1966 origins and domestication of this crop must, The complex species Sorghum bicolor for the present, be based on comparative (Linn.) Moench (Gramineae) includes all morphological studies correlated with dis- cultivated sorghums as well as a group of tribution patterns. For this purpose, tech- semiwild plants mostly associated with niques of numerical taxonomy were applied them as weeds. The extent of morphologi- to a quantitative analysis of morphological cal variation within S. bicolor is so tre- data based on type specimens and material mendous that Snowden (1936, 1955) sub- correlated with type descriptions of the divided this complex into 28 cultivated and “species” of Snowden. 24 related wild “species.” However, lack of genetic barriers between these taxa in- MATERIALS AND METHODS dicates that they all belong to a single species (de Wet, 1967). The value of a quantitative study in Very little is known about the antiquity determining relationships within S. bicolor of sorghum (Doggett, 1965). This crop is was demonstrated by Liang and Casady absent from the 
TI - THE ORIGIN OF SORGHUM BICOLOR. II. DISTRIBUTION AND DOMESTICATION
JO - Evolution
DO - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1967.tb03434.x
DA - 1967-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-origin-of-sorghum-bicolor-ii-distribution-and-domestication-yGYYAJMpEI
SP - 787
EP - 802
VL - 21
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -