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Yield Increase from Sorghum Hybrids

Nature volume 216, pages 798–799 (1967)Cite this article

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IN variety trials at thirty sites or seasons in East Africa, the grain yield of the hybrid H × 58 when plotted against the yield of ‘Serena’, its pollinator parent, showed a linear regression with a coefficient value which did not differ from b=1.0 (ref. 1). This same effect has been obtained from other areas, as shown in Table 1.

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  1. East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organization, EAAFRO/USAID/ARS Sorghum and Millets Research Unit, Serere Research Station, PO Soroti, Uganda

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DOGGETT, H. Yield Increase from Sorghum Hybrids. Nature 216, 798–799 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216798a0

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