Studies on Reproductive Development and Breeding Habit of the Commercially Important Bamboo Bambusa tulda Roxb.

ABSTRACT: Compared to other grasses, flowering in bamboo is quite divergent, yet complex with respect to time to flower, number of individual culms in a population that have been induced at a time (sporadic vs. gregarious), nature of monocarpy, morphology of inflorescences (solitary spikelet vs. pseudospikelet), biology of pollen and nature of genetic compatibility. Wide diversity exists even across species and genotypes. However, due to the rarity of flowering and inaccessibility, few studies have been done to systematically analyse diverse aspects of the reproductive behaviour of bamboo. In this study, four recurrently occurring, sporadic flowering populations of Bambusa tulda have been closely observed over the last seven years. Detailed inflorescence and floral morphology and development

SUBMITTER: Chakraborty S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8619091 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature