Evaluation of yield and forage quality in main and ratoon crops of different sorghum lines

Autor: K.S. Vinutha, P. Srinivasa Rao, G. S. Anil Kumar, Michael Blümmel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 40-49 (2017)
Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 40-49, Published: APR 2017
ISSN: 2346-3775
Popis: Improving the yield and quality of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) forage for livestock feeding is a major breeding objective, because of sorghum's inherently high biomass accumulation, high productivity per unit water utilized and its ability to produce a ratoon crop after harvesting of the plant crop. Newly bred sorghum lines, including 36 lines falling in 5 different categories, i.e. 12 experimental dual-purpose lines, 6 germplasm accessions from the ICRISAT collection, 11 commercial varieties and hybrids, 6 forage varieties and 1 bmr mutant line, were evaluated in terms of fodder yield, quality and ratooning ability. The main crop produced more dry biomass (P
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