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A SUGARY EXUDATION FROM SORGHUM

Volume : 20
Issue: Sep-sep
Pages: 394 - 396
Published: November 18, 2023
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Abstract


In a variety of sweet sorghum called Tella Jonna commonly grown the Bellary district a sweet fluid is found to exude from the ear- certain plants from the beginning of the flowering season. It frequently collects and dries on the leaves and is the cause of attrac- tion for the large number of ants and other insects that visit the plants. Usually it is found as a sticky semi-solid; in several cases however, crystals are formed. When this secretion takes place the ear-head remains small and undeveloped though in all other respects the plant may look normal.

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394 - 396
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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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