Yield response of sorghum cultivars to inorganic nitrogen fertilizer

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Summary: Field experiments were conducted during the rainy seasons (June–October) of 1978 and 1979 in order to determine the effect of fertilizer N rates (0, 40, 80 and 120 kg N/ha) on yield and yield attributes of some new sorghum cultivars in northern India. Sorghum hybrid varieties yielded more than pure line varieties, hybrid CSH 5 outyielding all other cultivars including other hybrid varieties because of its greatest number of grains per panicle. Nitrogen application at 80 or 120 kg N/ha brought about significant improvement in number of grains per panicle and yield per ha.Cultivar Χ N rate interactions were significant, in affecting the yield per ha and number of grains per panicle in 1978, whereas such differential response of sorghum cultivars to N rates did not occur in 1979. Sorghum hybrid varieties, even at lower N rates, produced identical yields to the pure line varieties supplied with higher N rates.