Conventional methods of weed control are weather dependent, costly and labour intensive. Indiscriminate use of chemicals for controlling weeds may pose environmental problems. Sorghum allelopathy is a new technique, which has been tested for controlling weeds of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) as a substitute for chemical herbicides to reduce environmental pollution. Mature sorghum herbage contain...

Sorghum is one of the most promising bioenergy crops. Stem juice yield, together with stem sugar concentration, determines sugar yield in sweet sorghum. Bulked segregant analysis (BSA) is a gene mapping technique for identifying genomic regions containing genetic loci affecting a trait of interest that when combined with deep sequencing could effectively accelerate the gene mapping process. In ...

Combinations of winter and fall cover crops were evalu­ ated for the management of plant-parasitic nematodes. The winter cover crops examined were rye (Secale cereale) and narrow-leafed lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) and the fall cover crops were soybean (Glycine max), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), sorghum-sudangrass (Sor­ ghum bicolor x S. sudanense), sun hemp (Crotalaria juncea), and corn (Zea m...

A total of 120 pigs (60 barrows and 60 gilts; TR4 × PIC 1050; 54.4 kg initial BW) were used in an 83-d study to evaluate the effects of added fat in corn- and sorghum-based diets on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and carcass fat quality. Treatments were arranged in a 2 × 3 factorial with grain source (corn or sorghum) and added fat (0, 2.5, or 5% choice white grease; CWG) as facto...

The effect of pelleting fodder on voluntary feed intake and digestibility in sheep was tested with sorghum straw cowpea haulm two forms (chopped granulated). Twenty-four (24) sheep, 18 to 24 months old, Djallonké breed were divided into 4 groups 6 following a random complete block device four (04) treatments as follows: R1= 50% chopped + haulms, R2 = Granulated 1 (50% haulms), R3 maize bran R4 ...

Information on long-term fertilization combined with crop rotation can contribute to better management of West African Lixisols. There is little information how organic inputs influence soil chemical properties under cereal monoculture versus a legume. Here, we investigated regimes emphasis in sorghum compared sorghum-cowpea rotation. The field trial Saria Burkina Faso, which has been operation...

Aim: The present study was carried out to evaluate the nutrient digestibility of sweet sorghum stover, an unconventional roughage source in ram lambs in comparison to conventional sorghum and maize stovers. Materials and Methods: 18 Nellore ram lambs aged about 3 months (average body weight 15.65±0.10 kg) were randomly allotted to three complete rations formulated with roughage to concentrate r...

The purpose of the study was to determine proximate composition and acceptability prepared pizza made with wheat, maize, cowpea flour blends. Five types were wheat flour, maize as main ingredients. sensory properties samples varied formulas, such 100:0:0, 90:6:4, 80:13:7, 70:18:12, 60:25:15%. As a control, entirely used. protein content composite ranged from 12.14 12.92%, moisture 12.59 12.82%,...

Cytogenetic maps of sorghum chromosomes 3-7, 9, and 10 were constructed on the basis of the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of approximately 18-30 BAC probes mapped across each of these chromosomes. Distal regions of euchromatin and pericentromeric regions of heterochromatin were delimited for all 10 sorghum chromosomes and their DNA content quantified. Euchromatic DNA spans approxima...