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Pearl Millet

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/9165/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9572-7_4
 
Title Pearl Millet
 
Creator Palit, P
Bhatnagar-Mathur, P
Sharma, K K
 
Subject Millets
 
Description With an alarming concern of global climate change and increasing
demand for drought-tolerant cereal staples, pearl millet, a widely exo- geographically
adopted member of the millet family, has caught the attention for a robust genetic
improvement. This chapter focuses on the various gene transfer technologies, both
horizontal and vertical, employed so far in pearl millet to improve the strategy of
introgression of newer traits and validation of gene function through transgenic
development. This chapter also compares the different gene transfer technologies
based on their exploitation in pearl millet development. It also accounts for the
details of genes transferred so far, especially for conferring biotic and abiotic stress
tolerance, in this crop. This chapter also discusses the future possibilities regarding
the introgression of genes of new traits and technologies already utilized in other
millets, which are hitherto unexploited for pearl millet.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Contributor Pratap, A
Kumar, J
 
Date 2014
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9165/1/CHAPTER%204.pdf
Palit, P and Bhatnagar-Mathur, P and Sharma, K K (2014) Pearl Millet. In: Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants, Achievements and Impacts. Springer, India, pp. 75-83. ISBN 978-1-4614-9571-0