Agro-morphological characterization of sorghum collection in Senegal showed a wide range of variation, linked to traits like plant duration, plant height, and yield components. Sorghum accessions or landrace characterized by short duration, high, and low-medium yield components are the most represented in the collection. Simple correlations between variables of different types relating to phenology, vegetative growth, and yield components are very different, showing a relative independence of characters, and thus a wide phenotypic diversity. This diversity can be explained by plant duration, plant height, grain weight per foot, and the shape of the panicle. From these agro-morphological characteristics, varietal groups based on similarity were identified and accessions with interesting agro-morphological characteristics clustered. Racially diversity, dominated by Guinea, caudatum and Durra are also observed. This collection is an interesting breeding material for improving sorghum.

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Identification of highly performing varieties under Senegalese environment is crucial to sustain rice production. Genotype-environment interaction and stability performance on the grain yield of ten upland rice genotypes were investigated across 11 environments in Senegal during the rainy seasons of 2016 and 2017 to identify adapted varieties. The experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three replications at each environment. Data on grain yield were recorded and analyzed using the additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) model. The combined analysis of variance revealed that the grain yield was significantly affected by environment (67.9%), followed by genotype × environment (G × E) interaction (23.6%) and genotype (8.5%). The first two principal component axes were highly significant with 37.5 and 26% of the total observed G × E interaction variation, respectively. GGE biplot grouped the environments into four potential megaenvironments. Based on the yield stability index parameter and ranking GGE biplot, NERICA 8 and ART3-7-L9P8-1-B-B-1 were stable and high-yielding varieties compared to the local check NERICA 6. These varieties should be proposed for cultivation in order to sustain the rice production in the southern part of the groundnut basin of Senegal and used as parental lines in rice breeding program for grain yield improvement.

Après l'oignon, la tomate est le plus important légume au Sénégal. Elle est très sensible au virus Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl (TYLCV). Quatorze variétés de tomate ont été testées pour évaluer leur productivité et leur résistance au TYLC à différents stades phénologiques (floraison, fructification et maturité) dans un dispositif en blocs complets randomisés comptant trois répétitions. Les résultats ont montré que le nombre de fruits/grappe a varié entre les variétés. La masse unitaire des fruits était plus élevée pour Bybal, Roma VF et Lety F1. La longueur des fruits de Thoriya et Lety F1 était plus importante. Roma VF et Bybal ont présenté les plus gros fruits. TY75 et Ponchita ont produit les rendements en fruits consommables les plus élevés. Roma VF et Lety F1 ont produit les rendements non consommables les plus élevés. Globalement, TY75 et Roma VF ont été plus productives. Une résistance au virus a été observée chez douze variétés et une forte sensibilité chez deux autres (Roma VF et Xina). Ces résultats pourraient intéresser les sélectionneurs, les firmes semencières et les agriculteurs dans leur choix de variétés de tomate à cultiver.