the objective of this study was evaluation of salt tolerance of elite forage sorghum lines in laboratory and field conditions. salinity treatments were 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 decisimens per meter in laboratory and distilled water as control. lines were kfs1, kfs2, kfs3, kfs4, mfs1, mfs2 and lfs56. the lines also cultivated in saline and non saline field conditions during 2004-2005. electrical co...

Deployment of host resistance remains the most cost effective strategy for management of foliar and grain diseases, especially for resource constrained farmers. There is paucity of information on dual resistance in sorghum to both diseases. The objective of this study was to identify SSR markers associated with anthracnose and TLB resistance in sorghum for future use in markers assisted introgr...

Pearl millet is one of the most important subsistence crops grown in India and sub-Saharan Africa. In many cereal crops, reduced height is a key trait for enhancing yield, and dwarf mutants have been extensively used in breeding to reduce yield loss due to lodging under intense management. In pearl millet, the recessive d2 dwarfing gene has been deployed widely in commercial germplasm grown in ...

Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a potential crop for organic production that could help meet the demand increase in food products and feed grains, but no efforts have been made to improve sorghum breeding tools, techniques, methods this cropping system. Based on revelations other crops, focal traits their prioritization optimize use likely differs from conventional targets. This study ...

Accelerating crop improvement in sorghum, a staple food for people in semiarid regions across the developing world, is key to ensuring global food security in the context of climate change. To facilitate gene discovery and molecular breeding in sorghum, we have characterized ~265,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 971 worldwide accessions that have adapted to diverse agroclimatic con...

Résumé Research Application Summary Introgressing resistance to Turcicum leaf blight and mapping of associated quantitative trait loci in sorghum Mayada Mamoun Beshir1, 2, Okori, P.1, Abdelbagi Ali, M.2 & Gibson, P.1, 3 1Department of Crop Science, Makerere University, P .O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda 2Agricultural Research Corporation, P. O. Box 126, Wad Medani, Sudan 3Department of Plants, Soi...

Root segments and root-soil cores (6.5-cm diameter) from fields and nurseries of winter wheat and sorghum were tested for N2 fixation by using the acetylene reduction assay. Wheat samples (approximately 1,200) from 109 sites generally had low or no activity (0 to 3.1 nmol of C2H4 produced per h per g [dry weight] of root segments), even after 24 h of incubation. However, a commercial field of S...