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Table 6. Striga plants per sorghum plant, Striga plants per plot, and laboratory germination index<br />

(Swarna = 100) of the 15 best Striga-resistant lines selected in field testing at Akola during<br />

rainy season 1976.<br />

Striga Striga<br />

plants per plants Striga<br />

sorghum per germination<br />

Entry Source plant plot index a Remarks<br />

(no) (no) (%)<br />

SRN 4841 Samaru, Nigeria 0.00 0.00 0.00 Resistant to S. hermonthica<br />

IS 5603 India (farmers' type) 0.00 0.00 180.17<br />

23-4 Mohol, India<br />

(selection from<br />

Matdani x Bonganhilo) 0.00 0.00 88.46<br />

IS 2643 India 0.00 0.00 0.00 Resistant to 5. asiatica<br />

(BH4-1-4)<br />

IS 6942 Sudan 0.00 0.00 97.31 Resistant to S. hermonthica<br />

SRN 1352 Samaru, Nigeria 0.01 0.25 6.92 Resistant to 5. hermonthica<br />

IS 1464 India (farmers' type) 0.02 0.25 162.50<br />

N-13 Nandyal, India 0.02 0.25 100.10 Yellow pericarp<br />

SRN 4310A Samaru, Nigeria 0.02 0.25 5.98 Resistant to S. hermonthica<br />

SRN 6788A Samaru, Nigeria 0.02 0.50 106.68 Resistant to S. hermonthica<br />

555 India (IS3687 x Aispuri) 0.03 0.50 0.00<br />

SRN 6838B Samaru, Nigeria 0.05 0.75 64.65 Resistant to S. hermonthica<br />

IS 5218 India (farmers' type) 0.05 1.00 98.38<br />

IS 8264 Uganda 0.06 1.25 104.56 Resistant to S. hermonthica<br />

IS 1506 India (farmers' type) 0.08 1.50 93.80<br />

CSH-1 8.28 128.27 - Check (field tests)<br />

Swarna - - 100.00 Check (laboratory<br />

germination test)<br />

a Reflects the number of seeds of S. asiatica germinated by the cultivar in the laboratory, expressed as a percentage of the number<br />

germinated by the check cultivar Swarna.<br />

first yield test in postrainy season 1979. It is<br />

proposed to incorporate stem-borer and midge<br />

resistance into the same population.<br />

Grain-grass Sorghums<br />

Grain-grass sorghums are shorter, earlier, higher<br />

tillering, and smaller in the head than normal<br />

sorghums, and are intended for use in droughtprone<br />

areas where total rainfall is around 350 to<br />

500 mm.<br />

Improved grain-grass types are available from<br />

selections from crosses; a population is also<br />

being formed.<br />

Testing under low fertility and high population<br />

density (450 000 plants/ha) took place<br />

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