Anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum sublineolum is considered one of the most important diseases of sorghum. The disease can cause up to 50% yield loss as it attacks all aerial parts of the plant. The pathogen is highly ...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) is a multi-purpose crop ranked fifth as the World’s major cereal after Maize, Wheat, Rice and Barley in terms of worldwide production and acreage. In Uganda, it is the third most ...

Sorghum is a marginal environment crop with needs for constant breeding to respond to the changes in the fragile agricultural production environment. Therefore understanding and utilizing the genetic variation in sorghum ...

Sorghum is a major staple food accounting for over 65 % of the carbohydrate requirements and 30% of the daily calorie intake for over 300 million people in developing economies of Africa and Asia. Sorghum production world ...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, L. Moench) is a key cereal crop to over 500 million people in semi arid tropics. Sorghum production in subsistence farming is low and ranges between 0.5– 0.8 t/ha compared to potential yields of ...

Colletotrichum sublineolum, the causal agent of sorghum anthracnose, presents high variability, genetic instability and host specialisation, hence rapidly breaking down resistance. In Uganda, no population studies of ...

In sorghum, a predominantly self-pollinated crop, hybrid seed production relies exclusively on the cytoplasmic-genetic male sterility system. The system of hybrid development requires sorghum breeding programs to develop ...

Sorghum {Sorghum bicolour (L.) Moench (2n=2x=20)}, a C4 grass that diverged from maize about 15 million years ago, is the fifth major cereal crop in the world after wheat, rice, maize and barley. It has relatively small ...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is a staple food and commercial crop for over 95% of the households in the highlands of southwestern Uganda. However, the farmer based selection traits for sorghum in the zone have not ...

Genetic progress and diversity of released sorghum varieties over the last 50 years in Uganda have not been assessed. This has led to limited information on the diversity, rate of genetic progress for grain yield and its ...