Exploitation of Hybrid Vigor for Identification of Promising Sorghum F1 Hybrid for High Grain Yield and Resistance to Sorghum Midge

Table 1

Mean squares for traits of 50 experimental hybrids evaluated in the 2015 rainy season.

Source of variation	d.f.	FF	GY	MD
Rep	2	3.795	42540.29	1.19
Lines	24	8.371	21725.33	0.15
Testers	1	36.358	214220.59	0.05^ns
Lines × testers	24	9.34	10620.12	0.11
Residual	97	6.679	11339.524	0.07
CV		3.950	52.810	49.628

SV = seedling vigor; PH = plant height; FF = days to 50% flowering; TSW = 1000 seed weight; GY = grain yield; MD = midge damage; ns = nonsignificant;^∗significant at 5%;significant at 1%.