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Sorghum Genetic Resources, Cytogenetics, and Improvement

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780203489260.ch11
 
Title Sorghum Genetic Resources, Cytogenetics, and Improvement
 
Creator Reddy, B V S
Ramesh, S
Sanjana Reddy, P
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is the world's fourth major cereal crop in terms of
production, and fifth in acreage following wheat, rice, maize, and barley. Sorghum is mostly grown
in the semiarid tropics (SAT) of the world as a subsistence dry-land crop by resource-limited farmers
under traditional management conditions, thereby recording low productivity compared to the U.S.
and Mexico. India grows the largest acreage of sorghum in the world, followed by Nigeria and
Sudan, and produces the second largest tonnage after the U.S., with Nigeria being the third largest
producer. In most of the regions of India, it is cultivated both as a rainy- and postrainy-season crop.
 
Publisher CRC Press
 
Contributor Singh, R. J.
Jauhar, P. P.
 
Date 2006
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5945/1/Ch11_Vol2_309-363_2006_Sorghum_Genetic_Resources.pdf
Reddy, B V S and Ramesh, S and Sanjana Reddy, P (2006) Sorghum Genetic Resources, Cytogenetics, and Improvement. In: Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement. CRC Press, pp. 309-363. ISBN Print : 978-0-8493-1432-2 ; eBook : 978-0-203-48926-0