WEED COMMUNITY INTERFERENCE AND PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES IN A SWEET SORGHUM CROP

Sweet Sorghum: Salt Tolerance and High Biomass Sugar Crop

Soil salinity is one of the main problems for plant growth in agriculture, especially in countries where crops should be irrigated (Ahloowalia et al., 2004). Soil salinity has been considered a limiting factor to crop production in arid and semi arid regions of the world (Munns, 2002). Saline soils are estimated about 5 – 10% of the world’s arable land (Szabolcs, 1994), and the area affected by...

A weed-crop complex in sorghum: The dynamics of genetic diversity in a traditional farming system.

Despite the major ecological and economic impacts of gene flow between domesticated plants and their wild relatives, many aspects of the process, particularly the relative roles of natural and human selection in facilitating or constraining gene flow, are still poorly understood. We developed a multidisciplinary approach, involving both biologists and social scientists, to investigate the dynam...

Sweet Sorghum as a Bioenergy Crop for the US Great Plains

Journal of Crop and Weed

Radiations and radioisotopes are used in agricultural research to induce genetic variability in crop plants to develop improved varieties, to manage insect pests, monitor fate and persistence of pesticides, to study fertilizer use efficiency and plant micronutrient uptake and also to preserve agricultural produce. Use of radiation and radioisotopes in agriculture is one of the most important fi...

Role of Copper on Physiological Parameters and Salt Tolerance in Sweet Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) Cultivars

This research was carried out to determine effect of sorghum cultivars and copper foliar spray on physiological traits under saline water situation via split plot experiment based on randomized complete blocks design with four replications during 2015 and 2016 year. The main plot consisted sorghum cultivars at three level (Kimia, KGS10, KGS4) and Copper foliar spray (C1: 0 or control...