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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/20694
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dc.contributor.authorO. P. Yadaven_US
dc.contributor.authorK. N. Raien_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-20T11:19:31Z-
dc.date.available2019-06-20T11:19:31Z-
dc.date.issued2013-12-01-
dc.identifier.citationNot Availableen_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/20694-
dc.descriptionNot Availableen_US
dc.description.abstractPearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is grown widely in the arid and semi-arid tropical regions in Indian subcontinent and African continent under the most adverse agro-climatic conditions where other crops like sorghum and maize fail to produce economic yields. Its grains are valued as human food while its dry stover makes important livestock ration in crop–livestock farming system. Enormous progress has been made in the genetic improvement of pearl millet in India during last several decades. This paper presents an overview of strategies followed in genetic improvement of pearl millet, assesses the impact of this research on crop productivity and presents its future prospects in climate-change scenario for providing food and nutritional security. The genetic improvement programme evolved strongly starting from selection in local and traditional material and reaching development of high-yielding hybrids with in-built resistance to diseases and tolerance to climatic stresses like drought and heat. The major approach in hybrid breeding has been to strategically utilize germplasm from Africa and Indian subcontinent with the result that a large number of genetically diverse hybrids have been developed with different combinations of phenotypic traits that are important for adaptation to different ecological regions. The genetic diversification of hybrids has proved very critical to contain downy mildew epidemics which had threatened hybrid technology per se in mid-1970s. A great deal of work has been done on understanding the epidemiology of different diseases and crop response to moisture stress that helped in developing disease-resistant and stress-tolerant cultivars. More than 100 cultivars with a combination of diverse phenotypic traits have been released in the last 25 years, providing a wide range of choice to farmers in different production ecologies of the crop. These cultivars have been widely adopted by Indian farmers with the result that the crop productivity has gone up from 305 kg ha−1 during 1951–1955 to 998 kg ha−1 during 2008–2012, registering a 227 % improvement which assumes greater significance given that more than 90 % of pearl millet is grown as rainfed and often on marginal lands. In future, pearl millet is likely to play a greater role in providing food and nutritional security. Pearl millet would also be an excellent genomic resource for isolation of candidate genes responsible for tolerance to climatic and edaphic stresses for accelerating further genetic improvement of this crop as well as for their possible deployment in the genetic improvement of other crops.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNot Availableen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
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dc.subjectPearl milleten_US
dc.subjectGenetic improvementen_US
dc.subjectDroughten_US
dc.subjectDisease resistanceen_US
dc.subjectAdoptionen_US
dc.titleGenetic Improvement of Pearl Millet in Indiaen_US
dc.title.alternativeNot Availableen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.publication.projectcodeNot Availableen_US
dc.publication.journalnameAgricultural Researchen_US
dc.publication.volumeno2(4)en_US
dc.publication.pagenumber275-292en_US
dc.publication.divisionUnitNot Availableen_US
dc.publication.sourceUrl10.1007/s40003-013-0089-zen_US
dc.publication.sourceUrlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40003-013-0089-zen_US
dc.publication.authorAffiliationAll India Coordinated Pearl Millet Improvement Project, Mandor, Jodhpur 342 304, Rajasthan, Indiaen_US
dc.publication.authorAffiliationInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, Indiaen_US
dc.ICARdataUseLicencehttp://krishi.icar.gov.in/PDF/ICAR_Data_Use_Licence.pdfen_US
dc.publication.naasrating5.95en_US
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