Sorghum is the important cereal crop around the world and hence understanding and utilizing the genetic variation in sorghum accessions are essential for improving the crop. A good understanding of genetic variability among the accessions will enable precision breeding. So profiling the genetic diversity of sorghum is imminent. In the present investigation, forty sorghum accessions consisting o...

Two temperate corn (Zea mays) hybrids (Pioneer 3320 and Northrup King 508), two tropical corn cultivars (Pioneer X304C hybrid and Florida SYN-1 experimental open pollinated cultivar), the sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) x sudangrass (Sorghum sudanense) hybrid DeKalb SX-17, and the sorghum hybrid DeKalb FS25E were compared for effect on nematode densities and forage yield in three plantings (one singl...

in order to study drought stress, zn and, fe foliar application on grain yield and yield components of sorghum (sorghum bicolar l .moench)in sistan region, an split plot experiment was carried out base on randomized complete block design with 3 replications during summer2010. three irrigation levels (normal irrigation, pre-anthesis drought stress and post-anthesis drought sress) ialocated in ma...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability foliar application potassium nitrate (KNO3) induce water deficit tolerance in sorghum plants (Sorghum bicolor cv. P898012) subjected at pre-flowering. experiment conducted under greenhouse conditions with 4 treatments: field capacity (FC), (WD), + KNO3 (FC KNO3), and (WD KNO3). Two applications 3% (m/v) were made, first on day zero stress ...

Grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is a major dryland crop in the Texas High Plains. Currently, drought and infestation by sugarcane aphid (SCA, Melanaphis sacchari) are two challenges to grain production area. A 2-year field study was conducted investigate effect of planting date (PD) hybrid selection on yield, evapotranspiration (ET), water use efficiency (WUE), SCA infestation. Five hybrids ...

Generation mean analysis was carried out to estimate the nature andmagnitude of gene effects for sugar yield and its component traits in sweet sorghum[Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench. Six basic generations, namely P1, P2, F1, F2,BC1P1, BC1P2 of four crosses involving seven diverse parents were evaluated inrainy 2009. The mean performance of the F1 in all the crosses indicated dominantgene effect fo...