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YIELD COMPONENTS ANALYSIS AND HERITABILITY OF AGRONOMIC TRAITS AMONG SOME ACCESSIONS OF SORGHUM IN GHANA
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Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is an important staple food crop in Ghana. It is used to prepare ‘tuo zaafi’, porridge and cake and to brew local beer known as ‘pito’. Unfortunately, sorghum attracts limited research attention to improve its low productivity which is of great disincentive to farmers. Understanding of yield and its components in sorghum is needed to improve the yield of existing local varieties. A study was carried out under field conditions in Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana district of the Upper East region of Ghana using four local accessions of sorghum; Banina, Kadaga, Naga red and Kapala to investigate yield and its components and their genetic parameters. There were significant (P<0.05) differences in yield traits among the accessions. High values for phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) and genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) were recorded for harvest index and number of grains per panicle. High heritability and high genetic advance (GA) were observed for number of days to flowering, number of primary panicles, grain weight per panicle, and days to maturity. Banina variety produced the highest number of leaves, panicle height, panicle width, plant height, number of grains per panicle, grains weight, economic and biological yield. There were also significant and positive correlation among most of the characters studied. Principal components analysis revealed that Banina was the highest yielding accession and number of grains per panicle was the principal contributing factor of this accession.
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