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Phenotyping reference set of foxtail millet (Setaria italica) for Agronomic Traits

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Title Phenotyping reference set of foxtail millet (Setaria italica) for Agronomic Traits
 
Creator Upadhyaya, H D
Bharathi, A
Gowda, C L L
Varshney, R K
Dwivedi, S L
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Belongs to family Poaceae and subfamily Panicoideae
• A self-pollinating diploid crop with 2n=18
• Domesticated in highlands of central China, possibly about 4000 years
ago
• Cultivated in 26 countries with annual production of 2.9 million metric
tons from the area of 3.5 m ha
• Two Setaria species are S. glauca and S. italica with the latter having two
subsp. viridis and italica
• S. italica consists of three races (Moharia, Maxima and Indica) and
ten subraces (Aristata, Fusiformis, Glabra, Compacta, Spongiosa,
Assamense, Erecta, Nana, Glabra and Profusa)
• ICRISAT gene bank contains the largest collection of 1535 accessions..........
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2008
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5826/1/Phentypic_ref_foxtailmillet_2008.pdf
Upadhyaya, H D and Bharathi, A and Gowda, C L L and Varshney, R K and Dwivedi, S L (2008) Phenotyping reference set of foxtail millet (Setaria italica) for Agronomic Traits. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.