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Molecular evaluation of Ethiopian sweet sorghum germplasm and their contribution to regional breeding programs

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Title Molecular evaluation of Ethiopian sweet sorghum germplasm and their contribution to regional breeding programs
 
Creator Disasa, T
Feyissa, T
Admassu, B
Paliwal, R
Villiers, S D
Odeny, D A
 
Subject Sorghum
Genetics and Genomics
 
Description Sweet sorghum is an excellent feedstock for ethanol production and is also used for food and livestock feed. Germplasm collection and characterization in sweet sorghum is a crucial step towards breeding and development of superior genotypes for various end-uses. In the present study, 13 Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers were used for genotyping 175 Ethiopian sweet sorghum genotypes alongside 27 improved accessions from eastern and southern Africa. All the tested markers detected 159 alleles and a high degree of polymorphism information content (PIC) averaging 0.69. A comparison between Ethiopian and improved accessions revealed higher allele numbers (124) in Ethiopian than improved accessions (92 alleles). More than half (65 out of 124) of the alleles observed in the Ethiopian accessions were rare (
 
Publisher Southern Cross Publishing Group
 
Date 2016
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9524/1/disasa_10_4_2016_520_527.pdf
Disasa, T and Feyissa, T and Admassu, B and Paliwal, R and Villiers, S D and Odeny, D A (2016) Molecular evaluation of Ethiopian sweet sorghum germplasm and their contribution to regional breeding programs. Australian Journal of Crop Science, 10 (04). pp. 520-527. ISSN 1835-2707