%0 Journal Article
%T Agro-Morphological Characterization of a Collection of Fonio [<i>Digitaria exilis</i> (Kippist.) Stapf.] Accessions from Burkina Faso
%A Balma Patrice
%A Kabore Boukare
%A Kiebre Mariam
%A Kiebre Zakaria
%A Sanou Jacob
%A Bationo/Kando Pauline
%J American Journal of Plant Sciences
%P 677-690
%@ 2158-2750
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ajps.2023.146046
%X Considered as the oldest cereal, fonio (<i>Digitaria exilis</i> Stapf</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">.</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">) is grown in</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> West
Africa for its therapeutic virtues, its nutritional and organoleptic quali<span>ties. It plays an important socio-cultural and
economic role for the populations of western Burkina Faso. However, very few
studies on the genetic di</span><span>ver</span><span>sity of fonio have been carried out. This study
aims to contribute to a better</span><span> knowledge of the diversity of <i>Digitaria
exilis</i> in Burkina Faso using agro</span></span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">morphological</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> descriptors. Thus, 60 accessions of fonio collected from western Burkina Faso <span>were characterized using 21 agro-morphological
characters according to an</span><span> Alpha
Latice design with three replications. The study</span> showed morphological <span>variability for most of the qualitative and
quantitative characters studied.</span> Principal component analysis (PCA)
explained 56.07% of the variability. Hierarchical cluster analysis split</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">s</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> the accessions of the collection into four clusters
using seven characters. These characters can constitute basic criteria for dif<span>ferentiating fonio accessions in Burkina Faso. The
accessions of Group </span></span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">II</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> have <span>a long cycle and high production of grain</span></span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">,</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> while the accessions of Group </span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">IV</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> have a short cycle and low
production of grain. The</span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> groups identified can serve as a starting point for
fonio breeding in Burkina Faso.
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%K i&gt
%K Digitaria exilis&lt
%K /i&gt
%K Agro-Morphological Variability
%K Accession
%K Burkina Faso
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