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Germination and Seedling Emergence of Sorghum at Low Temperatures 1
Author(s) -
Pinthus Moshe J.,
Rosenblum Joseph
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1961.0011183x000100040020x
Subject(s) - sorghum , seedling , reading (process) , sorghum bicolor , library science , crop , horticulture , computer science , political science , biology , agronomy , law
PLANTING of sorghum at soil temperatures below 18° C. usually has resulted in poor seedling stands. Leukel and Martin (3) showed that seedand soil-borne fungi may cause reduction of germination and emergence of sorghum, and that this reduction increased with the decrease of soil temperature. Leukel succeeded in improving emergence of sorghum at 15° C. by certain seed treatments (2). In corn, problems connected with germination at low temperatures have been studied by means of the cold test technique (1). So far, this method has not been adopted for sorghum. The present study was conducted to examine, with the aid of cold tests, the causes of reduced germination at low