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In summarizing, the Ethiopian Center of Crop Diversity contains enormous wealth of genetic variability in the sorghums. It needs some concerted effort to adequately collect and preserve this genetic variability before it is invaded and destroyed by improved uniform varieties and modern technology. The Alemaya station has a limited collection of the Ethiopian sorghums, about 1800 entries. These collections have been very useful and will continue to be so in the sorghum breeding programs of Alemaya and the world at large.
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Contribution from the Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Haile Sellassie I University. Paper presented to the Fourth Eastern African Cereal Research Conference, Ethiopia.
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Gebrekidan, B. The importance of the Ethiopian sorghum germplasm in the world sorghum collection. Econ Bot 27, 442–445 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860698
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860698