Research Article
Exploitation of Hybrid Vigor for Identification of Promising Sorghum F1 Hybrid for High Grain Yield and Resistance to Sorghum Midge
Table 2
Mean performance of 50 experimental hybrids evaluated in the 2015 rainy season.
| Crosses | Grain yield (t/ha) | Midge damage | Days to 50% flowering |
| TX640 × L1 | 6.18 | 0.72 | 65 | QL33 × 1 | 3.84 | 0.35 | 65 | TX640 × L2 | 5.56 | 0.34 | 68 | QL33 × L2 | 3.99 | 0.79 | 64 | TX640 × L3 | 4.34 | 0.45 | 66 | QL33 × L3 | 5.42 | 0.46 | 63 | TX640 × L4 | 8.37 | 0.59 | 67 | QL33 × L4 | 10.39 | 0.15 | 67 | TX640 × L5 | 4.03 | 0.61 | 66 | QL33 × L5 | 5.09 | 0.65 | 64 | TX640 × L6 | 9.71 | 0.2 | 66 | QL33 × L6 | 4.63 | 0.77 | 66 | TX640 × L7 | 10.65 | 0.25 | 67 | QL33 × L7 | 3.35 | 0.84 | 65 | TX640 × L8 | 4.95 | 0.66 | 67 | QL33 × L8 | 5.83 | 0.57 | 64 | TX640 × L9 | 3.65 | 0.54 | 67 | QL33 × L9 | 3.77 | 0.6 | 66 | TX640 × L10 | 4.71 | 0.58 | 62 | QL33 × L10 | 2.52 | 0.59 | 64 | TX640 × L11 | 8.41 | 0.47 | 69 | QL33 × L11 | 1.17 | 0.3 | 64 | TX640 × L12 | 4.56 | 0.6 | 69 | QL33 × L12 | 4.87 | 0.61 | 64 | TX640 × L13 | 9.89 | 0.25 | 64 | QL33 × L13 | 6.49 | 0.33 | 68 | TX640 × L14 | 8.69 | 0.46 | 65 | QL33 × L14 | 3.60 | 0.64 | 63 | TX640 × L15 | 7.13 | 0.61 | 65 | QL33 × L15 | 6.03 | 0.6 | 63 | TX640 × L16 | 7.24 | 0.62 | 66 | QL33 × L16 | 2.78 | 0.59 | 63 | TX640 × L17 | 5.05 | 0.43 | 65 | QL33 × L17 | 2.71 | 0.81 | 66 | TX640 × L18 | 12.78 | 0.74 | 66 | QL33 × L18 | 9.16 | 0.25 | 66 | TX640 × L19 | 4.69 | 0.84 | 68 | QL33 × L19 | 6.70 | 0.49 | 62 | TX640 × LL20 | 8.21 | 0.54 | 67 | QL33 × L20 | 6.42 | 0.73 | 68 | TX640 × L21 | 8.32 | 0.59 | 61 | QL33 × L21 | 2.92 | 0.7 | 65 | TX640 × L22 | 4.16 | 0.53 | 66 | QL33 × L22 | 3.29 | 0.64 | 63 | TX640 × L23 | 6.39 | 0.5 | 67 | QL33 × L23 | 4.08 | 0.61 | 64 | TX640 × L24 | 11.77 | 0.3 | 62 | QL33 × L24 | 5.25 | 0.61 | 61 | TX640 × L25 | 11.49 | 0.51 | 64 | QL33 × L25 | 5.35 | 0.59 | 68 | Grand mean | 5.91 | 0.54 | 65 | LSD | | 0.44 | 4.19 |
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