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Marker applications in pearl millet

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Title Marker applications in pearl millet
 
Creator Hash, C T
Bramel-Cox, P J
 
Subject Millets
 
Description There are a multitude of potential applications of DNA marker technologies to the
improvement of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.). This presentation will delve
into two major areas — the use of these molecular markers in pearl millet genetic diversity
studies and the use of molecular markers for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) to facilitate
marker-assisted (MA) breeding for economically important pearl millet traits having a large
genotype ´ environment component to their phenotypic variation. The discussion of pearl
millet genetic diversity studies builds on the general outline of this area presented earlier in this
course by Dr. Bramel-Cox. The discussions of QTL mapping and MA breeding in pearl millet
will be based largely on results obtained over the past nine years in a series of collaborative
projects involving the International Crops Research for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),
UK-based researchers supported by the Plant Sciences Programme (PSP) of the Department
for International Development (DFID, formerly the Overseas Development Administration
(ODA)) and based at the John Innes Centre for Plant Sciences Research (JIC, Norwich), the
University of Wales (UW, Bangor), and the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
(IGER, Aberystwyth), and several public-sector agencies involved in pearl millet improvement
in India under the umbrella of the All-India Coordinated Pearl Millet Improvement Project
(AICPMIP).
 
Publisher IITA
 
Date 1999
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6171/1/S2_5Hash.pdf
Hash, C T and Bramel-Cox, P J (1999) Marker applications in pearl millet. Manual. IITA, Ibadan.