Quantitative-genetic parameters of sorghum growth under striga infestation in Mali and Kenya

Plant Breeding

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-56

  Haussmann, B I G ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Hess, D E ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Reddy, B V S ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Mukuru, S Z ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Kayentao, M ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Welz, H G ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Geiger, H H ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Mali)

^c INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^d INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Kenya)

^e Institut d'Economie Rurale Mali   (Mali)

^f Aventis CropScience   (United States)

Author keywords

Diallel analysis; GCA; Heritability; Heterosis; Resistance; SCA; Sorghum bicolor; Striga hermonthica; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGRONOMIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAIN YIELD; HERITABILITY; HETEROSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYBRID; PARASITIC INFECTION; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PLANT BREEDING; SORGHUM;

EID: 0035093159     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0523.2001.00546.x     Document Type: Article

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