Registration of NP25 Low-dhurrin Sudangrass Germplasm

Authors

Francis A. Haskins, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Herman J. Gorz, United States Department of Agriculture
S. D. Kindler, United States Department of Agriculture
S. G. Jensen, United States Department of Agriculture
A. Sotomayor-Rios, United States Department of Agriculture

Date of this Version

1-1986

Comments

Published in Crop Science (January-February 1986) 26: 213.

Abstract

NP25 sudangrass [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] (Reg. no. GP-180), a low-dhurrin, random-mating population that carries the ms₃ gene for genetic male sterility, was developed cooperatively by USDA-ARS and the Nebraska Agricultural Research Division and released in April 1984. Plants of NP25 are leafy and fine-stemmed, 160 to 170 cm in height with dry stalks (white midrib), tan plant color, sienna glumes, and brown pericarp. NP25 restores fertility to hybrids when crossed to male steriles with A1 cytoplasm.