Breeding and Agronomic Studies with Sorghum in Puerto Rico

A. Sotomayor-Rios and S. Torres-Cardona

No 261618, 20th Annual Meeting, October 21-26, 1984, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands from Caribbean Food Crops Society

Abstract: Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench.) research activities at the Tropical Agriculture Research Station (TARS), Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, are described. In cooperation with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 423 daylength insensitive lines from the Sorghum Conversion Program were developed. Numerous new collections were evaluated and classified. Other activities include the evaluation of new cytoplasms and their reactions when crossed to converted lines, the evaluation of grain and forage hybrids, the comparison of daylength sensitive versus daylength insensitive forage hybrids and the development of single and three-way hybrids. Newly developed single and three-way forage hybrids yield over 25 tons ha-1 of dry forage in 180 days. Sorghum populations developed, or in process of development, at TARS in cooperation with other scientists include: 1. populations with reduced hydrocyanic acid (HCN) potential; 2. populations of high yield potential; and 3. populations with increased resistance to common tropical diseases of sorghum.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 5
Date: 1984-10-21
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261618/files/20_71.pdf (application/pdf)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261618/files/20_71.pdf?subformat=pdfa (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:cfcs84:261618

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.261618

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 20th Annual Meeting, October 21-26, 1984, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands from Caribbean Food Crops Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().