APOMIXIS IN GRAIN SORGHUMS

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ALTHOUGH apomictic form ofreproduction is known in the grass family including
the tribe Andropogoneac (Brown and Emery, 1957, 1958), no such instance
seems to be on record in the cultivated sorghums. Since one of the major
advances in the improvement of this cereal has been the commercial exploitation
of heterosis, apomictic development of seed would be of considerable use to the
plant breeder in maintaining and perpetuating heterozygosity. This paper
is a record of apomictic form of

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Year: 1968
Volume: 28
Issue: 2
Article DOI: NA
Print ISSN: 0019-5200
Online ISSN: 0975-6906

Authors

N. G. P. RAO and L. L. NARAYANA info_circle

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