Effect of Mycorrhiza on Growth and Yield of some Sorghum Cultivars Sorghum bicolor L Moench

Abstract

The experiment was conducted during summer season (2014), in Demonstration Farm of the College of Agricultural Studies at Shambat , Sudan University of Science and Technology, to study the role of Mycorrhiza and their possible utility in five genotypes of grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolour L Moench). The experiment was arranged in split trial with the mycorrhiza in the main plot(with and without) and five sorghum cultivars (Butana, Tabat , ArfaGadamak , Wad Ahmed , Tetron ) as the sub-plot with four replications. Characters studied were plant height, stem diameter, number of leaves per plant, leaf area, days to 50% flowering, panicle length, fresh and dry weight, weight of seed /panicle ,yield/plant, thousand seed weight, yield (Ton/ha). The results showed that there were significant differences among most of the characters studied. Plant height, number of leaves, length of panicle, weight of seeds.