• K.GEETHA
• R.SIVAKUMAR
• R.LATHA
• S.SRIVIDYA
• S.Divya

Fourteen local land races of sorghum collected and farmer’s field of Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts and sixteen germplasm accessions for Department of Plant Genetic Resources, TNAU, Coimbatore along with two promising sorghum varieties Paiyur 1 and Paiyur2 were and characterization was done for 11 qualitative characters, 22 quantitative characters and 6 drought tolerant traits. Among the 32 land races evaluated, Sorghum land races 16-05 (RS), 2457, 16-01 (RS), 2657, 4269 were found to be early in (82-85 days), high yielding (28 to 29.3g/plant), having high photosynthetic rate, (38.6 umolm2s-1), high Proline content (394 ugg-1) and high soluble protein content (14.4 mgg-1) and hence found to be tolerant to drought. These land races can be used as one of the parents in crossing programme for developing short duration, high yielding drought tolerant varieties in sorghum.

Sorghum land races, germplasm accessions, photosynthetic rate, proline, soluble protein, qualitative, drought and quantitative traits

"CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF RED SORGHUM (SORGHUM BICOLOR) GERMPLASM AND LAND RACES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.830-845, March-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103113.pdf

"CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF RED SORGHUM (SORGHUM BICOLOR) GERMPLASM AND LAND RACES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no. pp830-845, March-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103113.pdf