A strategy to identify potential germplasm for improving yield attributes using diversity analysis in sorghum

Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 187-194

  Aruna, C ^a   Audilakshmi, S ^a  

^a ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MILLETS RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Augmented design; Correlation coefficients; Genetic diversity; Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench; Sorghum races; Yield components

Indexed keywords

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 55549092476     PISSN: 14792621     EISSN: 1479263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1479262108994144     Document Type: Article

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