All India Co-ordinated Sorghum Improvement Project, IARI Regional Research Station, Hyderabad
2Present Address: Department of Plant Breeding, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Dist. Nainital (U.P.).
1Part of Ph.D. Thesis submitted to I.A.R.I. by the senior author.
Evaluation of male per se performance and its relation to test cross yields revealed that line per se performance could profitably be utilized as an effective preliminary test for potential parents. Subsequent evaluations could be based on test crosses. There are indications that parents selected on the basis of their performance under favourable conditions of a single environment could result in hybrids of general superiority over varying environments.
