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Landrace sorghum lines- potential sources for male sterility maintainers in hybrid parent development

author(s) Angarawai, I I - Leiser, W - Nebie, B - Mary, Y Y - Daniel, A A - Abubakar, AA - Jerome, J
from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
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  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
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Angarawai, I I and Leiser, W and Nebie, B and Mary, Y Y and Daniel, A A and Abubakar, AA and Jerome, J (2019) Landrace sorghum lines- potential sources for male sterility maintainers in hybrid parent development. In: African Plant Breeders conference, 23-25 October 2019, Accra Ghana

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Abstract

The potential of hybrid sorghum to provide yield advantages under drought stressed conditions in semiarid areas was shown several authors ( Haussmann, et al., 1998, 2000, Rattunde et al., 2013). Higher yield advantages were shown with Nigerian germplasm in preliminary on-station testing (Andrews, 1975), though the parental materials have since been lost. The objective of this work is to identify suitable seed parents towards developing hybrid sorghum for the Nigerian environment, constrained most particularly by non-appropriate indigenous sources of stable malesterility maintenance on the female parents, within the diversesorghum landraces

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