Morphological variability of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) cultivated in the valley of Oued Righ (South-East Algeria)
The present work aimedto establish a morphological characterization of 10 sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) cultivars sampled from farmers of OuedRigh valley. The study wasbased on the evaluation of 20 agro-morphological parameters of which 14 are quantitative and 6 qualitative.Principal components analysis (ACP) of the results suggested interdependence of evaluated parameters and showedsignificant differences amongcultivars. The study revealed eight highly significant correlations, including four positive and four negative. The cultivars of the Blidet Amorregion, Bouhnik"BA1"and Mahjoubi "BA3",and the cultivar of the Nezla region, Boucetta "N4" expressed the best values for the number of tillers, the length of the seed and the weight of 1000 seeds.