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Postrainy season sorghum: Constraints and breeding approaches

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Title Postrainy season sorghum: Constraints and breeding approaches
 
Creator Reddy, B V S
Reddy, P S
Sadananda, A R
Dinakaran, E
Ashok Kumar, A
Deshpande, S P
Srinivasa Rao, P
Sharma, H C
Sharma, R
Krishnamurthy, L
Patil , J.V
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is the fifth most important
cereal crop in the world. Different types of sorghum are
recognized. These are: grain sorghum, dual purpose
(grain and fodder) sorghum, fodder sorghum, forage
sorghum and sweet stalk sorghum. Also two types of
sorghums are noted based on the season of adaptation;
these are rainy (wet) season or postrainy (dry) season
sorghum. There are two distinct sorghum growing
seasons in India, kharif (rainy season; June–October) and
rabi (postrainy season; October–January). In India, the
grain productivity is about 1.2 t ha-1 in the rainy season,
and about 0.8 t ha-1 in the postrainy season whereas the
global grain productivity of sorghum is 1.4 t ha-1
(FAOSTAT 2011). The grain sorghum requirements for
these two seasonal adaptations are quite diverse due to
different agroclimatic conditions (Rana et al. 1997).
There has been a significant decline in area under grain
and dual purpose sorghum during the rainy season due to
grain molds, but the area has remained stable in the
postrainy season where mostly dual purpose sorghums
are cultivated.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6369/1/SATeJ_10_1-12_2012.pdf
Reddy, B V S and Reddy, P S and Sadananda, A R and Dinakaran, E and Ashok Kumar, A and Deshpande, S P and Srinivasa Rao, P and Sharma, H C and Sharma, R and Krishnamurthy, L and Patil , J.V (2012) Postrainy season sorghum: Constraints and breeding approaches. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research, 10 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 0973-3094