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Title	Sweet sorghum cultivar options Not Available

Creator	SS Rao, AV Umakanth, JV Patil, BVS Reddy, A A Kumar, Ch Ravinder Reddy, P Srinivasa Rao

Subject	sweet sorghum Biofuel traits Juice quality stalk Sugar content

Description	Not Available Sweet sorghum can be grown under dryland conditions with annual rainfall ranging from 550-750 mm. The best areas to produce this crop are Central and South India, subtropical areas of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal. It can be grown on well-drained soils such as silt loam or sandy silt clay loam soils with a depth of 0.75 m. Atmospheric temperatures suitable for sweet sorghum growth vary between 15 and 37°C. Sorghum being a C4 species is adapted to a wide range of environments with latitudes ranging from 40oN to 40oS of the equator. Sorghum in general has relatively a deep root system (>1.5 m), and has the unique feature of being ‘dormant’ under unfavorable conditions and resume growth once environmental conditions are favorable Not Available

Date	2018-11-09T10:30:07Z 2018-11-09T10:30:07Z 2013-12-15

Type	Book chapter

Identifier	Not Available 978-92-9066-555-7 http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10123

Language	English

Relation	Not Available;

Publisher	International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

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