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Notification of crop varieties and registration of germplasm: Pearl millet variety ‘Dhanashakti’

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Title Notification of crop varieties and registration of germplasm: Pearl millet variety ‘Dhanashakti’
 
Creator Rai, K N
Patil, H T
Yadav, O P
Govindaraj, M
Khairwal, I S
Cherian, B
Rajpurohit, B S
Rao, A S
Shivade, H
Kulkarni, M P
 
Subject Pearl Millet
 
Description Despite impressive records of economic growth and
agricultural production in India, about 80% of the
pregnant women, 52% of the non-pregnant women,
and 74% of the children in 6-35 months age group
suffer from iron deficiency. About 52% of the children
below 5 years are zinc deficient. Crop biofortification
is increasingly being recognized as a cost-effective
and sustainable approach to address this problem.
Pearl millet, in general, has higher iron (Fe) and zinc
(Zn) contents than other major cereals such as wheat,
rice, maize and sorghum. Earlier studies have shown
large variability for Fe and Zn contents in the breeding
lines, hybrid parents, hybrids, improved populations
and germplasm; and also identified ICTP 8203, a
released open-pollinated variety (OPV) under
cultivation, having the highest level of Fe content.
 
Publisher The Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding
 
Date 2014-08-28
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9038/1/ijgpb-74-3-022.pdf
Rai, K N and Patil, H T and Yadav, O P and Govindaraj, M and Khairwal, I S and Cherian, B and Rajpurohit, B S and Rao, A S and Shivade, H and Kulkarni, M P (2014) Notification of crop varieties and registration of germplasm: Pearl millet variety ‘Dhanashakti’. The Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 74 (3). pp. 405-406. ISSN 0019-5200