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Relationship between lodging, certain morphological characters and yield of grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

H. A. Esechie
H. A. Esechie
Affiliation:
Kiesselbach Research Laboratory, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583, U.S.A.
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Summary

Studies were conducted in two consecutive years at Mead, Nebraska, to investigate the relationship between lodging, certain morphological characters and grain yield of sorghum.

Morphological characters correlated with lodging were plant height, length of prepeduncle internode and rind thickness. Lodging was negatively correlated with number of days from sowing to 50% bloom and grain yield but was not correlated with grain weight of the head.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 101 , Issue 3 , December 1983 , pp. 669 - 673
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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