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CO-3: A NEW SUNFLOWER VARIETY FOR TAMIL NADU

Volume : 82
Issue: Dec-dec
Pages: 623 - 625
Published: July 08, 2023
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Abstract


TNAU SUF 10 Sunflower is a gamma irradiated mutant of Co2. It is an open-pollinated variety maturing in 90 days and outyielded standard varieties Co2 and Morden. The plants are tall with greater head diameter. The seed contains 38.3 percent oil. It is highly suitable for the districts in western zone, north western zone and southern zones of Tamil Nadu for kharif (rainfed) and rabi. It was released as Co3 sunflower for Tamil Nadu to replace Co2 and Morden varieties.

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623 - 625
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Sunflower - Variety - Adaptive Research Trial
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