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Are nonwoven synthetic pollination bags a better choice for sorghum breeding?

This study reports the results of a follow up study from that of Schaffert et al. (2016) on novel pollination bags for the outcome of seed harvest in sorghum. Experiments by them in 2015 showed the superiority of pollination bag *Corresponding author.

Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License made of nonwoven fabrics over the control Kraft paper bags in many respects.

It was suggested that synthetic nonwoven bags may be re-used within the same or different seasons (Hayes and Virk, 2016) but there was no experimental evidence to support this in sorghum.