Character association and path analysis in grain sorghum

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1337-1340

  Ezeaku, I E ^a   Mohammed, S G ^b  

^a International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics   (Nigeria)

^b AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Correlation; Grain yield; Path analysis; Sorghum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENOTYPE; GRAIN YIELD; NONHUMAN; PATH ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT HEIGHT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEED SIZE; SORGHUM;

SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR;

EID: 33750623281     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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