Mutation Breeding in Sorghum in Indonesia.

Abstract

Sorghum has a big potential to be grown and developed in Indonesia. The objective of this research is to produce new sorghum variety to improve sorghum production for supporting the development of sorghum agroindustry in Indonesia. The lethal dose 50% (LD-50) value for sorghum was found to be 0.73 kGy. The dose of 0.4 kGy gave the highest variance for plant height and harvest index. Selection in the generating M2, M3 and M4 populations resulted to some promising lines, especially ET20-B, with desirable agronomic characteristics, big and condense head, high yielding, white and clean color of seeds, and good nutrition values.