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STUDIES OF VARIABILITY AND YIELD PERFORMANCE IN SOME ACCESSIONS OF SORGHUM (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)

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ABSTRACT

STUDIES OF VARIABILITY AND YIELD PERFORMANCE IN SOME ACCESSIONS OF
SORGHUM (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)

Journal: Plant Physiology and Soil Chemistry

Author: Akinyele, M. O., Oyewale, R. O., Nasiru, I., Ogunremi, O.C., Ekwere, U. A., Joseph, R. I., Adeshina D.A.

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

DOI: 10.26480/ppsc.02.2021.58.62

Field trial was conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, to evaluate some accessions of sorghum. Nineteen (19) sorghum accessions were characterized and yield determined with its component traits. A randomized complete block design with three replicate was used for the experiment. Data were collected on plant height, number of leaves/plants, leaf length, leaf width, grain weight and 1000 seed weight. Data on the various morph-agronomical traits were subjected toindividual and combined analysis of variance (ANOVA). Highly significant differences among accessions were found for all characters. Phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) was higher than genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) and high phenotypic and genotypic variability was observed between the nineteen sorghum accessions. The highest value of heritability was observed in grain weight (99 %), and the highest yielding accession was AKV11 (Kaura) with grain weight of 614g and 514.33g for the two consecutive years, therefore, AKV11, AKV9 and AKV14 were recommended for Sorghum improvement programme and for farmers in Southern guinea zones of Nigeria.
Pages 58-62
Year 2021
Issue 2
Volume 1