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Article: New agricultural research research reported from H. Leonvelasco and co-authors.
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- Agriculture Week
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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According to recent research from Montecillo, Mexico, "Two generations of cold tolerant sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] experimental hybrids and parental lines adapted to the Mexican High Central Valleys were developed at the Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico. In 1996, five experiments were set up (three irrigated and two rain fed), at 2250 in of altitude, to estimate the general combining ability (GCA) of the lines, as well as the heterosis and heterobeltiosis of the hybrids for grain yield, seed weight and seed number; and to compare the per se response vs. the GCA of the lines."
"Each experiment included 12 first generation hybrids, 80 from the second and ...