Quantitative genetic analysis of agronomic and morphological traits in sorghum, Sorghum bicolor.

ABSTRACT: The productivity in sorghum is low, owing to various biotic and abiotic constraints. Combining insect resistance with desirable agronomic and morphological traits is important to increase sorghum productivity. Therefore, it is important to understand the variability for various agronomic traits, their heritabilities and nature of gene action to develop appropriate strategies for crop improvement. Therefore, a full diallel set of 10 parents and their 90 crosses including reciprocals were evaluated in replicated trials during the 2013-14 rainy and postrainy seasons. The crosses between the parents with early- and late-flowering flowered early, indicating dominance of earliness for anthesis in the test material used. Association between the shoot fly resistance, morphological, and agronomic t

SUBMITTER: Mohammed R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4630571 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature