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Pearl Millet Breeding Lines Developed at ICRISAT: A Reservoir of Variability and Useful Source of Non-Target Traits

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Title Pearl Millet Breeding Lines Developed at ICRISAT:
A Reservoir of Variability and Useful Source of
Non-Target Traits
 
Creator Rai, K N
Gupta, S K
Sharma, R
Govindaraj, M
Rao, A S
Shivade, H
Bonamigo, L A
 
Subject Millets
 
Description The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-
Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) conducts inter-disciplinary and
partnership-based research for the genetic improvement
of its mandate crops. During the 1970s and 1980s, the
pearl millet improvement at ICRISAT, Patancheru,
emphasized on: (i) developing a diverse range of traitspecific
composites, based on the germplasm largely from
the Western and Central Africa; (ii) improving them by
the process of recurrent selection, principally for grain
yield and downy mildew (Sclerospora graminicola (Sacc.)
Schroet ) resistance; and (iii) developing open-pollinated
varieties (OPVs) (Rai and Anand Kumar 1994). The
improved composites, OPVs, and breeding lines derived
from them, were disseminated for worldwide utilization.
These germplasm, improved populations, and breeding
lines were also utilized at ICRISAT, Patancheru, mostly
for pedigree breeding which was aimed at developing a
wide and diverse range of improved trait-specific breeding
lines and hybrid parents employing higher grain yield
potential and downy mildew (DM) resistance, as the
main selection criteria. Limited efforts were also made
to develop composites, OPVs, and breeding lines with
additional resistance to smut (Tolyposporium penicillariae
Bref.) and ergot (Claviceps fusiformis Loveless).
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2014
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8629/1/SAT%20eJournal_1_1_1-13_2014.pdf
Rai, K N and Gupta, S K and Sharma, R and Govindaraj, M and Rao, A S and Shivade, H and Bonamigo, L A (2014) Pearl Millet Breeding Lines Developed at ICRISAT: A Reservoir of Variability and Useful Source of Non-Target Traits. SAT eJournal, 1 (1). pp. 1-13.