The practical exploitation of hybrid vigour in Sorghum received considerable fillip with the discovery of cytoplasmic-genic male-sterile system in the Milo-Kafir crosses by Stephens and Holland (1954). Information on the fertility restoration in m. s. C. K. 60 by a range of Sorghum types and knowledge of the inheritance of fertility restoration in chosen combinations of crosses that would be useful in planning the future programme of work.
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