Use of hybridization to develop new sorghum varieties and hybrids
Hybridization is the main method for developing new breeding material, obtaining genetic variability, and combining desired traits. The purpose of the current work is to characterize new promising varieties and hybrids of sweet and grass sorghum ...
N. A. Kovtunova +3 more
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2001 Kansas Performance Tests with Summer Annual Forages [PDF]
This publication presents the results of tests designed to compare forage production and quality of corn, sorghum, and sorghum-sudan hybrids. Samples from each harvest were collected to determine moisture content and for laboratory analysis of forage ...
Roozeboom, Kraig L.
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Biochar and manure application on soils of varying texture were not detrimental to Bermudagrass hay, sorghum‐Sudan hay, and maize silage production or nutritive value for ruminant cattle during the first growing season. Longer study periods may produce different results because, over time, biochar can act as a slow‐released source of nutrients, in ...
Cade P. Cooper +7 more
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Combining ability and heterosis for grain yield, fodder yield and other agronomic traits in sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] [PDF]
Forty five hybrids derived from a diallel mating design of ten parents and one standard check PUSA CHARI-121 were evaluated for general and specific combining ability effects and standard heterosis for grain yield/plant, dry fodder yield/plant, days to ...
Chand, Pooran, Kumar, Sushil
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LIBERALIZATION'S IMPACT ON THE INDIAN SEED INDUSTRY: COMPETITION, RESEARCH, AND IMPACT ON FARMERS [PDF]
This article attempts to measure the impact of IndiaÂ’s limited liberalization on the seed industry and on farmers. Using a unique data set on the structure, research, and sales of private seed firms at two points in time, 1987 and 1995, we provide ...
Pray, Carl E., Ramaswami, Bharat
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The working results of the research institutions of the Russian federation on sorghum
S.I. Gorpinichenko, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences; N.A. Kovtunova, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences; V.V. Kovtunov, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences FSBSI “Agricultural Research Center ‘Donskoy” (347740, Zernograd, Nauchny Gorodok, 3; email ...
S. I. Gorpinichenko +2 more
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Yield and nutritional quality of nine summer annual forages [PDF]
Nine summer annual forages were studied to evaluate yield and nutritional quality differences resulting from forage type and cultivar when cut at two stages of maturity.
Fjell, Dale L. +3 more
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Avaliação de vinte e cinco híbridos de sorgo (Sorghum bicolor) com capim sudão (Sorghum sudanense) pela técnica in vitro semi-automática de produção de gases. [PDF]
Empregando a tecnica in vitro semi-automatica de producao de gases, 23 hibridos experimentais e dos hibridos comerciais de sorgo com capim sudao (Sorghum bicolor x Sorghum sudanense), utilizados em regime de corte, foram avaliados quanto a qualidade da ...
FARIAS, B. N. de +6 more
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Protein feeding of Queensland fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni and cucumber fly Zeugodacus cucumis (Diptera: Tephritidae) on non-host vegetation: effect of plant species and bait height [PDF]
Perimeter-baiting of non-crop vegetation using toxic protein baits was developed overseas as a technique for control of melon fly, Zeugodacus (Zeugodacus) cucurbitae (Coquillett) (formerly Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) cucurbitae), and evidence suggests that ...
De Faveri, Stefano G. +3 more
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