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Details for: PI 547036,
Cenchrus americanus
(L.) Morrone, TIFT #4
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cenchrus americanus
(L.) Morrone
Top Name:
TIFT #4
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Maintained:
Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)
Received by NPGS:
01 Feb 1991
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cenchrus americanus
(L.) Morrone
Top Name:
TIFT #4
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Maintained:
Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)
Received by NPGS:
01 Feb 1991
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Developed
Georgia, United States
Developer(s):
Burton, Glenn W., USDA, ARS
Wilson, Jeff, USDA, ARS
Donated
01 February 1991.
Georgia, United States
Donor(s):
University of Georgia
Wilson, Jeff, USDA, ARS
Accession Names and Identifiers
TIFT #4
Type: Developer identifier
Narrative
Moderately resistant to Puccinia substriata var. indica. Plants tall, photoperiod sensitive. Seed increase in the greenhouse during the winter is recommended.
Cenchrus americanus
(L.) Morrone
Genus:
Cenchrus
Family:
Poaceae
(alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Cenchrinae
Nomen number:
464256
Place of publication:
Ann. Bot. (Oxford) ser. 2, 106:127. 2010
Verified:
01/17/2012
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Panicum americanum
L.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pennisetum americanum
(L.) Leeke
Pennisetum americanum
(L.) Leeke subsp.
americanum
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chaetochloa glauca
(L.) Scribn.
Chamaeraphis glauca
(L.) Kuntze
Holcus spicatus
L.
Panicum glaucum
L.
Panicum spicatum
(L.) Roxb.
Pennisetum glaucum
(L.) R. Br.
Pennisetum leonis
Stapf & C. E. Hubb.
Pennisetum typhoideum
Rich.
Setaria glauca
(L.) P. Beauv.
Pennisetum typhoides
(Burm. f.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.
Pennisetum spicatum
(L.) Körn.
Alopecurus typhoides
Burm. f.
Pennisetum glaucum
(L.) R. Br. subsp.
glaucum
Setaria glauca
(L.) P. Beauv. subsp.
glauca
Setaria glauca
(L.) P. Beauv. var.
glauca
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
bajra
1
1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English
bulrush millet
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
cattail millet
1
Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds.
1996. Cereals. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.,
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA)
10:119-123.
English
horse millet
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English
Indian millet
1
Tabaeizadeh, Z. et al.
1986. Somatic hybridization in the Gramineae:
Saccharum officinarum
L. (sugarcane) and
Pennisetum americanum
(L.) K. Schum. (pearl millet). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83:5616-5619.
English
pearl millet
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French
mil africain
2
Demilly, D. et al.
2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
French
millet à chandelles
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French
millet perle
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German
Negerhirse
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
German
Perlhirse
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
India (Hindi)
bajira
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian
miglio perlato
2
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Portuguese
milheto
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish
mijo negro
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish
mijo perla
2
Catasús Guerra, L. J.
2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163.
Swedish
pärlhirs
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese
yu gu
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
Name
References
Annotations
Nomenclature Name Change:
11 Feb 2016, from
Pennisetum glaucum
(L.) R. Br. to
Cenchrus americanus
(L.) Morrone
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Description:
S6 selections from 15 Burkina Faso landraces (BF nos. 19, 34, 45, 49, 53, 63, 122, 156, 201, 221, 320, 326, 329, 334 and 337)
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration
. GP-27, MILLET, PEARL. Issued: 01 Nov 1991.
Wilson, J. P. & G. W. Burton.
1991. Tift #3 and Tift #4 Rust Resistant Pearl Millet Germplasms. Crop Sci. (Madison) 31(6):1713.
Note:
GP-27
Material Transfer Agreement