Heritability of some quantitative fodder characters in three crosses of sorghum (Sorghum vulgare Pers.) and Sudan grass (Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf

Chandra, S. (1970) Heritability of some quantitative fodder characters in three crosses of sorghum (Sorghum vulgare Pers.) and Sudan grass (Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf. Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad and Tobago, 47. pp. 251-255.

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Abstract

Heritability was studied for seven characters in crosses within and between sorghum and Sudan grass. The broad-sense heritability estimates were higher than the corresponding narrow-sense estimates and indicated that nearly a quarter of the total genetic variability was nonadditive. It was concluded that selection of single plants would be more effective for plant height, days to 50% flowering, number of tillers per plant and number of leaves per plant than for stem girth, dry-plant weight or green-plant weight.

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Department Plant Breeding, Punjab Agriculture University, Hissar, India.
Subjects: Plant Production
Crop Improvement
Divisions: Sorghum
Depositing User: Mr. SanatKumar Behera
Date Deposited: 27 May 2012 12:11
Last Modified: 27 May 2012 12:11
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/5804

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