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Ensuring the Success of Pigeonpea Hybrids by Focusing on Purity of Parental Lines and Appropriate Management Practices

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Title Ensuring the Success of Pigeonpea Hybrids by Focusing on Purity of Parental Lines and Appropriate Management Practices
 
Creator Vales, M I
Saxena, K B
Sultana, R
Kumar, R V
 
Subject Pigeonpea
 
Description Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is an important legume crop, grown
mainly in the semi-arid tropics of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
The total world area planted with pigeonpea is 4.6 million ha. India is the
number one producer (3.5 million ha) of pigeonpea; despite this, there is not
sufficient amount available to meet the nutritional needs of the large and
mainly vegetarian resource-poor population and importation of pigeonpea
from other countries like Myanmar and parts of Africa is needed to fulfill the
country needs. Although dozens of pigeonpea varieties have been released,
the productivity of pigeonpea has remained stagnant at around 700 kg ha-
1. This is mainly due to various genetic, management, abiotic, and abiotic
constraints. Since the area of pigeonpea cultivation is not likely to be increased,
the emphasis moves to break the yield gap and to increase productivity by
genetic enhancement of germplasm by incorporating tolerance to biotic
and abiotic stresses, and by replacing the traditional varieties with the newly
developed options.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2010
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Vales, M I and Saxena, K B and Sultana, R and Kumar, R V (2010) Ensuring the Success of Pigeonpea Hybrids by Focusing on Purity of Parental Lines and Appropriate Management Practices. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.