Transferring improved postrainy hybrid parents, and hybrids to partners for studying the adaptation and feasibility of seed multiplication

Abstract

The improved postrainy sorghum materials developed at ICRISAT were organized in to four major trials - elite B-lines trial, elite R-lines trial, elite varieties trial and elite hybrids trial We discuss herewith the results from partnership research efforts by ICRISAT, Center for Rabi Sorghum (CRS-IIMR) - Solapur, Mahatma Phuke Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV) – Rahuri, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth (VNMKV) – Parbhani, Sorghum Improvement Project, Main Agricultural Research Station, University of Agricultural Sciences – Dharwad, Regional Agricultural Research Station, Bijapur (under UAS-Dharwad) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) on the dual purpose postrainy sorghum hybrids, varieties and hybrid parents development and their assessment for grain and stover yield and quality.