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Can Cold Tolerance Bring in Hybrids on Commercial Front in Winter Sorghum?


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1 Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500 030, India
 

Studies on early-season and mid-season cold temperature stress on growth and yield components in diverse classes of winter sorghum are essential for targeting hybrid development that is otherwise confined only to rainy season-grown sorghum. The results showed that from among the 194 winter sorghum genotypes belonging to 5 groups - varieties, B-lines, R-lines, hybrids and germplasm lines, 81% of the genotypes were correctly placed in their respective groups based on discriminant analysis. Principal component analysis showed that most of the traits involved in the study are important and variability cannot be explained by a few traits and the traits recorded at seedling and maturity stages were explained by different principal components. Most of the traits recorded under cold stress at seedling stage did not correlate with those recorded under cold stress at anthesis. There is scope for improvement of individual groups for seedling dry fodder yield and grain yield, more so in the case of hybrids and female parental lines. Breeding for cold tolerance at seedling as well as anthesis stages has to be separately targeted. Thus, for developing new winter sorghum hybrids, female parental lines have to be diversified and improved for grain yield and percentage of seed set by crossing with promising germplasm lines identified in the study.

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Cold Tolerance, Germplasm, Hybrids, Winter Sorghum.
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Authors

P. Sanjana Reddy
Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500 030, India
Sunil Gomashe
Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500 030, India

Abstract


Studies on early-season and mid-season cold temperature stress on growth and yield components in diverse classes of winter sorghum are essential for targeting hybrid development that is otherwise confined only to rainy season-grown sorghum. The results showed that from among the 194 winter sorghum genotypes belonging to 5 groups - varieties, B-lines, R-lines, hybrids and germplasm lines, 81% of the genotypes were correctly placed in their respective groups based on discriminant analysis. Principal component analysis showed that most of the traits involved in the study are important and variability cannot be explained by a few traits and the traits recorded at seedling and maturity stages were explained by different principal components. Most of the traits recorded under cold stress at seedling stage did not correlate with those recorded under cold stress at anthesis. There is scope for improvement of individual groups for seedling dry fodder yield and grain yield, more so in the case of hybrids and female parental lines. Breeding for cold tolerance at seedling as well as anthesis stages has to be separately targeted. Thus, for developing new winter sorghum hybrids, female parental lines have to be diversified and improved for grain yield and percentage of seed set by crossing with promising germplasm lines identified in the study.

Keywords


Cold Tolerance, Germplasm, Hybrids, Winter Sorghum.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv113%2Fi02%2F307-313