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Screening For Sweet Stalk Sorghums, And Environmental Effect On Stalk Sugar Concentrations

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Title Screening For Sweet Stalk Sorghums, And Environmental Effect On Stalk Sugar Concentrations
 
Creator Seetharama, N
Rao, K E P
Subramanian, V
Murty, D S
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Two sets of sorghum ( Sorghum bicolcr (L. ) Moench) germplasm rccqsslons
were screened for sweet stalks during rainy ( n = 9.000 ) and postrain y (n = 102)
seasons by chew in^ and testing, and for sugar percentage in the juice by
usinq brix-refractometer. Sets of 96 and 25 lines were selected during the two
respective seasons. Stalk juice from a few selected lines were further characterized
for sugar concentration, recovery of sugar. 8tC. A few lines were found
to be stable in sugsr percentage across environments. Water stress increased
the stalk sugar percentage, while nitrogen fertilizer application had little effect
Stalk rot incidence decreased stalk sugar concentrations. Suggestions are made
for the use of sweet and )uicy stalk characteristic in crop in,provement progrsm
to produce multipurpose sorghum.
 
Date 1987
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4269/1/CP_308.pdf
Seetharama, N and Rao, K E P and Subramanian, V and Murty, D S (1987) Screening For Sweet Stalk Sorghums, And Environmental Effect On Stalk Sugar Concentrations. In: Technology and applications for alternate uses of sorghum: proceedings of the National Seminar, 2-3 Feb 1987, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India.