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Geographic patterns of phenotypic diversity in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) landraces from North Eastern Ethiopia

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Title Geographic patterns of phenotypic diversity in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) landraces from North Eastern Ethiopia
 
Creator Desmae, Haile
 
Contributor Jordan, David
Godwin, Ian
 
Subject differentiation
zones
traits
diversity
Sorghum
 
Description Understanding the pattern of genetic variability is an important component of germplasm collection and
conservation as well as the crop’s improvement process including the selection of parents for making
new genetic recombination. Nine hundred seventy four sorghum landraces from North Eastern (NE)
Ethiopia were evaluated for agro-morphologic characters to assess geographic patterns of phenotypic
diversity and to identify whether there are specific areas of high diversity for particular traits. The
Shannon-Weaver diversity index (H′) for qualitative traits ranged from 0.30 to 0.93 (mean = 0.67) for
grain covering and grain color, respectively. The landraces also displayed highly significant differences
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Date 2016-08-18
2017-03-15T04:11:15Z
2017-03-15T04:11:15Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9622
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/bRtFX2Yl
Haile Desmae, David Jordan, Ian Godwin. (18/8/2016). Geographic patterns of phenotypic diversity in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L. ) Moench) landraces from North Eastern Ethiopia. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 11 (33), pp. 3111-3122.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/6490
Open access
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Academic Journals
 
Source African Journal of Agricultural Research;11,(2016) Pagination 3111,3122