Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding (The)
Year : 1982, Volume : 42, Issue : 1
First page : ( 60) Last page : ( 63)
Print ISSN : 0019-5200. Online ISSN : 0975-6906.

Basts for Further Improvement of Parental Lines of Sorghum Hybrids¹

Rao V. Jaya Mohan, Reddy B. Balarami, Ekladious K.G.*, Formerly FAO/SIDA Trainee; presently First Research Officer (Sorghum), Rana B.S., Rao N. G. P.

>National Research Centre for Sorghum, IARI-Regional Station, Hyderabad-500 030, A.

*Shandawell Agricultural Research Station, Gazieret Shandawell (Sohag), Egypt, UAR.

¹Part XXVI of Genetic analysis of some exotic x Indian crosses in sorghum. Part XXV was published in Indian J. Genet. 41 (1981).

Abstract

An attempt has been made to develop a basis for further improvement of male and female parents for future commercial sorgeum hybrides. With respect to female improvement, compared to B x B crosses, B x R crosses offered greater scope for improving yield, grain quality and resistance ot stem borer. The B x R and R x R crosses have been found to be generally superior to B x R indicating limited B variability among B lines.

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