Breeding Sorghum for Stability of Performance Using Tropical Germplasm

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Details

Project Code:
UNL-115

Start Date:
1992

End Date:
1997

CRSP Phase:
Not Available

Budget:
Not Available

Countries:
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Participants

Lead University:

Other Partners:
Collaborating Scientists' Institutions: Department of Agricultural Research (Botswana); SADCC/ICRISAT (Zimbabwe); CNRA (Senegal); ICRISAT (India); Texas A&M University (US)

Principal Investigator(s):
David J. Andrews

Co-Principal Investigator(s):
None

Overview

A principal aim of this project is to introduce and utilize newly bred high yielding tropical food quality sorghums which have so far not been widely used in U.S. breeding programs. Utilization will be mainly through selection of progeny from crosses with superior U.S. lines. Conversely, through the same crosses,

high yield traits from U.S. sorghums are made available for selection in developing countries. Appropriate parts of this variability in early generations will be used to support

breeding projects in developing countries, and in the U.S. to develop new varieties and parental lines.

This project works principally with the breeding programs in Senegal and Botswana (but has also provided material in 1991 to India, Mexico, South Africa, and Zimbabwe), es well as in the Midwest of the U.S.

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