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Designing a sorghum genetic improvement program

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Title Designing a sorghum genetic improvement program
 
Creator Reddy, B V S
Ashok Kumar, A
Sanjana Reddy, P
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description For ages farmers have exercised selection through saving and carrying forward the
grain from healthy plants as seed for sowing the next crop. Plant breeders further
augmented/enhanced the crop productivity, thus mediating directed evolution. The
art of plant breeding lies in the breeder’s skills in observing plants with unique
economic, environmental, nutritional and aesthetic characteristics. In this article,
we briefl y describe various factors that need to be considered in launching a crop
improvement program with emphasis on sorghum.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India
 
Date 2008
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4337/1/Designing_a_sorghum_genetic_improvement_program.pdf
Reddy, B V S and Ashok Kumar, A and Sanjana Reddy, P (2008) Designing a sorghum genetic improvement program. In: Sorghum Improvement in the New Millennium. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India, Patancheru, Andhra Pradessh, pp. 31-49. ISBN 978-92-9066-512-0