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Heterosis in white-grained grain mold resistant sorghum hybrids

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Title Heterosis in white-grained grain mold resistant sorghum hybrids
 
Creator Ashok Kumar, A
Reddy, B V S
Ramaiah, B
Sharma, R
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is an important food and
feed crop grown in more than 90 countries. Globally it is
grown on over 40 million ha predominantly in tropical
Africa and India for food and in temperate areas
(Americas, Europe and Australia) as a feed crop (Reddy
et al. 2011). India has largest area (7.5 million ha) under
sorghum and 40% of this area is in rainy season while
postrainy season sorghum accounts for the remaining
area. Grain mold, a highly destructive disease of sorghum
cultivated in the rainy season, is widely distributed in the
semi-arid tropics of Africa, Americas and Asia including
India (Stenhouse et al. 1997)...
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4692/1/Heterosis__in_white-grained_grain_mold_resistant_sorghum_hybrids.pdf
Ashok Kumar, A and Reddy, B V S and Ramaiah, B and Sharma, R (2011) Heterosis in white-grained grain mold resistant sorghum hybrids. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research, 9. 6pp.. ISSN 0973-3094