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The objective of the study was to determine if the introgression of exotic sorghum lines increases the variability in the size of the glume and in the percent of uncovered grains. The sorghum population NESC7 (P1) was formed during four agricultural cycles (2005-2007) with an introgression cycle, and beginning on the fifth agricultural cycle (2008), the genetic variability for these traits was estimated in the 120 half-silb and 110 self-sib families. The methodology of incomplete block design was used at two locations, the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Nuevo Leon (FAUANL) in Marín Nuevo Leon and INIFAP in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas. The introgression of exotic lines with smaller glume size and reduced grain cover into the population NESC7 (P1) reduced the size of the (13%), increased the percentage of uncovered grain (28%), and increased the proportion of both characteristics in the additive variance (5% and 1%), the heritability in a narrow sense of 22 % and 1% and higher response to selection (4% y 0.3%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]