Morphological characterization of sorghum lines with aluminium stress and phosphorus deficiency tolerance

Abstract

Abstract Sorghum has a good adaptation in marginal land, such as acid soil. The development of acid soil tolerant variety was directed to combine with Al stress and P deficiency adaptation. Characterization of the qualitative and quantitative traits was necessary to obtain the line performance information. The traits were expected to have a distinct, uniform, and stable traits as a requirement for variety registration. The purpose of this research was to obtain information about the quantitative and qualitative character of F9 sorghum lines. The study was conducted from March to July 2019 at Cikabayan Bawah Experimental Field, Plant Breeding Laboratory, and Micro technical Laboratory, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, IPB University. Randomized complete block design with genotype as a treatment factor was carried out in this experiment. Analysis of variance showed significant differences in quantitative and qualitative traits in sorghum lines. There were variations in the qualitative and quantitative traits observed. Based on cluster analysis, Sorghum lines and check varieties formed three groups. group 1 (Super 2), group 2 (170-9, 151-8, dan 114-7) and group 3 (67-9, 104-7, 115-9, 286-6, 331-8, and Numbu). Three promising sorghum lines were identified for varietal release, i.e., 114-7, 115-9, and 331-8.