Fiber content analysis of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] germplasm lines

This study was performed at Instructional dairy farm, Govind Ballabh Pant University of agriculture and technology during Kharif season, 2017 to evaluate and characterize 96 sorghum accessions for various morphological and fodder yield parameters. Nutritional characters of 25 selected lines with high protein and low HCN are evaluated. Nutritional characters like cellulose, hemicelluloses, ADF, NDF, silica and lignin were studied. Lowest content of NDF, ADF, cellulose, lignin and silica were reported in IS31861 (51.3%), IS-4925 (29.7%), IS-3865 (25%), IS-20399 (3.35%) and IS-4925 (0.85%) respectively. These accessions can be used as donor parents for the nutritional characters in the breeding programme.