QUALITY TRAIS ASSOCIATION IN FORAGE SORGHUM

CORRELATION STUDIES IN MULTICUT FORAGE SORGHUM GROWN UNDER DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS

RAMESH CHANDRA, KEWALANAND, Y. P. JOSHI AND SHYAM SINGH

Department of Agronomy
G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology,
Pantnagar-263 145, U. S. Nagar (Uttarakhand), India

SUMMARY

Correlation has been studied in various growth, quality characters and yield of multicut forage sorghum cultivars which were planted at two locations in a split plot design during kharif season of
2007. The linear correlation study revealed positive and highly significat association between yield and growth/quality components at both the loecations. Perfect correlation (r=1) was between crude protein yield and total N-uptake at both the locations. Among quality and growth parameters, significant positive correlation was noticed at both the locations except between crude protein/N-content and plant height, leaf : stem ratio, dry matter accumulation in third cutting at Lakhaoti, dry matter accumulation and disgestibility in first cutting at Pantnagar, where the positive correlation was not significant.

Key words : Correlation, multicut forage sorghum, protein, digestibility, environment

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