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Development of male-sterile lines in sorghum

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Title Development of male-sterile lines in sorghum
 
Creator Reddy, B V S
Ashok Kumar, A
Sanjana Reddy, P
Ramaiah, B
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is the fi fth important cereal crop in the world after wheat, rice, maize and barley. Of late, it has emerged as ‘fuel’ crop
in addition to its food, feed and fodder utilities. Sorghum is predominantly a selfpollinated crop and development of new ‘varieties’ is a natural option for crop improvement. However, there is 5 to 15% outcrossing in sorghum depending upon the wind direction, nature of genotype, and humidity (House 1985), which makes it amenable for use in population improvement and hybrid development to exploit the heterosis. Discovery of genetic male sterility (GMS) and cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterility (CMS) facilitated the application of recurrent selection procedures
and hybrid cultivar development methods, respectively, in sorghum improvement.
In this article, male-sterile line development using CMS in sorghum is described.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2008
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4338/1/Development_of_male-sterile_lines_in_sorghum.pdf
Reddy, B V S and Ashok Kumar, A and Sanjana Reddy, P and Ramaiah, B (2008) Development of male-sterile lines in sorghum. In: Sorghum Improvement in the New Millennium. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, pp. 72-78. ISBN 978-92-9066-512-0