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Foxtail millet: A model crop for genetic and genomic studies in bioenergy grasses

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Title Foxtail millet: A model crop for genetic and genomic studies in bioenergy grasses
 
Creator Lata, Charu
Gupta, Sarika
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject Panicoid
Setaria
abiotic stress
C4 photosynthesis
germplasm
genome sequence
male sterility
marker-aided breeding
 
Description Accepted date: 25 Jul 2012
Foxtail millet is one of the oldest domesticated diploid C4 Panicoid crops having a comparatively small genome size of approximately 515 Mb, short life cycle, and inbreeding nature. Its two species, Setaria italica (domesticated) and Setaria viridis (wild progenitor), have characteristics that classify them as excellent model systems to examine several aspects of architectural, evolutionary, and physiological importance in Panicoid grasses especially the biofuel crops such as switchgrass and napiergrass. Foxtail millet is a staple crop used extensively for food and fodder in parts of Asia and Africa. In its long history of cultivation, it has been adapted to arid and semi-arid areas of Asia, North Africa, South and North America. Foxtail millet has one of the largest collections of cultivated as well as wild-type germplasm rich with phenotypic variations and hence provides prospects for association mapping and allele-mining of elite and novel variants to be incorporated in crop improvement programs. Most of the foxtail millet accessions can be primarily abiotic stress tolerant particularly to drought and salinity, and therefore exploiting these agronomic traits can enhance its efficacy in marker-aided breeding as well as in genetic engineering for abiotic stress tolerance. In addition, the release of draft genome sequence of foxtail millet would be useful to the researchers worldwide in not only discerning the molecular basis of biomass production in biofuel crops and the methods to improve it, but also for the introgression of beneficial agronomically important characteristics in foxtail millet as well as in related Panicoid bioenergy grasses.
This study was supported by the Department of
Biotechnology (DBT), Department of Science & Technology
(DST), Govt. of India, New Delhi and core grant from the
National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR).
Dr. Charu Lata and Dr. Sarika Gupta acknowledge the
award of INSPIRE Faculty (Grant No. IFA-11LSPA-01)
and DST-Young Scientist Fellowships (Grant No. SR/FT/
LS-152/2008), from DST, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
 
Date 2015-11-09T05:40:15Z
2015-11-09T05:40:15Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 33(3): 328-343
0738-8551
http://172.16.0.77:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/342
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07388551.2012.716809?journalCode=ibty20#.VkAvvpR1XSs
10.3109/07388551.2012.716809
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher Informa UK Limited, an Informa Group Company (T&F Group)