<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Genetic Variation for Striga hermonthica Resistance and Yield Among Sorghum Accessions in Nigeria</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">G</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Afolayan</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S E</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Aladele</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S P</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Deshpande</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A P</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Kolawole</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">D J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Nwosu</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">C</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Michael</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">E T</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Blay</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">E Y</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Danquah</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Striga hermonthica (Delile) Benth., commonly referred to as witch weed, is a major constraint to sorghum&#13;
(Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) production in the Northern region of Nigeria because of high yield losses due to&#13;
infestation. To identify parental lines useful in breeding for S. hermonthica resistant sorghum genotypes adapted&#13;
to Nigeria, twenty-five sorghum accessions were evaluated in Nigeria across three test environments. Both&#13;
phenotypic and genetic components influenced the variation observed in the sorghum accessions. The estimates&#13;
for the genetic coefficient of variation, heritability and genetic advance for the area under Striga number&#13;
progress curve (ASUNPC), Striga emergence counts, yield and other agronomic traits, obtained in this study&#13;
revealed that genetic gain for resistance to S. hermonthica could be realized through selection. Based on the&#13;
performance of the 25 sorghum accessions SRN39, Danyana, Sepon82, and SAMSORG40 were the top four&#13;
accessions found to be most resistant to S. hermonthica. Assessment of resistance was based on the low Striga&#13;
emergence counts and the ASUNPC values. These accessions can be used as donor sources of S. hermonthica&#13;
resistant genes for introgression into cultivars adapted to Nigeria, followed by recombination breeding for&#13;
pyramiding the different resistance mechanisms.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Sorghum</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Genetics and Genomics</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Plant Disease</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2020-06</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE)</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>