Impact of bagging panicles of the stalk yield and juice quality of sweet sorghum.
1987
Rahman S.B.M.F. | Shaha S.C. | Jabbar M.A.
An experiment was conducted at the Sugarcane Research and Training Institute Farm, Bangladesh during the summer season of 1983 and 1984 with four sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) varieties viz. Rio, Mer 71/1, Wray-4 and Ramada to study whether bagging and removal of top two leaf blades affect the stalk yield and juice quality of sweet sorghum. For facilitating bagging, the top two leaf blades were removed from the plants just before bagging. Comparisons were made amongst the plants with the bagged and unbagged panicles with the top two leaf blades removed or not removed. Significant reduction in juice Brix,% recovery and purity was observed by bagging the panicle or removing the top two leaf blades of the unbagged plants compared to normal plants. Greater reduction in Brix, % recovery and purity was observed in the plants, where top two leaf blades were removed and then the panicles were bagged compared to either bagging of the panicle or removing the top two leaf blades alone. No gross stalk yield reduction was observed. Where the panicles were bagged, but top two leaf blades not removed. Insignificant reduction in gross stalk yield was noticed, where top two leaf blades were removed both in the case of bagged or unbagged sweet sorghum plants.
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