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Breeding for disease and pest resistance in pearl millet

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Title Breeding for disease and pest resistance in pearl millet
 
Creator Williams, R J
Andrews, D J
 
Subject Millets
 
Description The present status of the control of biological agents causing
yield losses in pearl millet is reviewed. The possibilities of controlling
diseases, insect pests, weeds and grain-eating birds by breeding cultivars
with durable resistance are discussed. In future breeding research
in this crop, areas needing to be emphasized include: evaluation of the
nature and inheritance of disease resistance; development of strategies
to increase the durability of resistance to diseases; investigations into
the possibility of using complex multiple barriers to disease pathogens;
additional survey work and the development and use of effective
screening techniques for insect pests; evaluation of integrated control
strategies against insects; development and use of screening techniques
to identify and develop cultivars resistant to witchweed; and investigation
of cultural practices and breeding techniques to control shibra in
Sahelian Africa.
 
Date 1983
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5138/1/0117.pdf
Williams, R J and Andrews, D J (1983) Breeding for disease and pest resistance in pearl millet. In: FAO/IITA Expert Consultation on Durable Resistance Breeding,, 23-29 October 1982, Ibadan, Nigeria.