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Heterosis and combining ability for grain and biomass yield in sorghum hybrids for the semi-arid lowlands of Eastern Kenya

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11448/
10.14662/ARJASR2019.035
 
Title Heterosis and combining ability for grain and biomass yield in sorghum hybrids for the semi-arid lowlands of Eastern Kenya
 
Creator Sheunda, P
Nzuve, F M
Manyasa, E O
Chemining’wa, G N
 
Subject Sorghum
Genetics and Genomics
 
Description Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important cereal crop used for food, feed, and industrial raw material. In Kenya, it’s a food and nutritional security crop in the semi-arid areas which are prone to maize crop failures. The study aimed at estimating the combining ability and heterosis for grain and biomass yield among sorghum hybrids. Thirty- four F1 sorghum hybrids, their parents and a check were evaluated at two KALRO research centers in Kenya during the 2014-2015 cropping seasons. Square lattice trial design with three replications was used and fourteen agro-morphological traits studied at each location. The combined analysis of variance showed highly significant differences (p
 
Date 2019-05
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11448/1/Sheunda%20et%20al.pdf
Sheunda, P and Nzuve, F M and Manyasa, E O and Chemining’wa, G N (2019) Heterosis and combining ability for grain and biomass yield in sorghum hybrids for the semi-arid lowlands of Eastern Kenya. Academic Research Journal of Agricultural Science and Research, 7 (4). pp. 176-189. ISSN 2360-7874