Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (Mar 2015)

CG PICAÇO: a new cultivar of sudangrass with high forage performance and seed yield

  • Emilio Ghisleni Arenhardt,
  • José Antonio Gonzalez da Silva,
  • Ewerton Gewehr,
  • Lorenzo Ghisleni Arenhardt,
  • Celso Luis Arenhardt,
  • Gilmar Nonnenmacher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-70332015v15n1c10
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 51 – 55

Abstract

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A new cultivar of sudangrass [Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf.] was developed by the method of selection of individual plants with progeny testing. The most important traits are high forage performance, good leaf:stalk ratio, and high seed yield.

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