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Kharif Sorghum Germplasm Collection in Karnataka and Adjoining Areas

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Title Kharif Sorghum Germplasm Collection in Karnataka and Adjoining Areas
 
Creator Prasada Rao, K E
Gopal Reddy, V
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description An assessment of the present world collection of sorghum maintained at ICRISAT reveals that the majority of the germplam constitute either experimental accessions which are generally photo insensitive or authentic indigenous races from tropical countries which are photosensitive. Most of the landraces assembled from tropical countries including India behave photoperiod sentitive when grown in a long day (rainy) seson at Patancheru (17 27'N latitude) indicating the lacking of early insensitive types especially from India. There are very few pockets in South India where early kharif types are cultivated among which Northern Karnataka and its adjoining areas are very important. These areas were not adequately collected in earlier missions and their valuble germplasm are facing severe threat from hybrid and improved sorghum varieties. More landraces from this region may provide valuable source material for sorghum improvement programs particularly for earliness probable resistance to drought (several areas are drought prone). They may also possess weathering resistance because of their maturity during rainy season
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 1980
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8024/1/RP-3841.pdf
Prasada Rao, K E and Gopal Reddy, V (1980) Kharif Sorghum Germplasm Collection in Karnataka and Adjoining Areas. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.