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Little Millet, Panicum sumatrense, An Under-utilized Multipurpose Crop

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Title Little Millet, Panicum sumatrense, An Under-utilized Multipurpose Crop
 
Creator Vetriventhan, M
Upadhyaya, H D
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Little millet is a native crop of India, and well adapted to varied soil and environmental conditions, short duration
with considerable within species diversity, and has huge potential to produce good grain yield and high biomass with
limited water supply under marginal lands of Indian condition. To assess the grain and biomass yield potentials, 200
accessions, including core collection (56) were evaluated in an alpha-design using two replications. The residual
maximum likelihood (REML) analysis indicated that variance due to genotypes was significant for important traits
including grain and biomass yields. A large variability was observed for days to flowering (range 38 to 97 days), plant
height (94 to 198 cm), basal tillers (7.8 to 13.32), grain yield (5 to 12 g plant-1) and dry matter yield (23 to 159 g
plant-1). Accessions belonging to race robusta were late flowering (79 days after sowing), taller (167 cm) and having
higher dry matter yield (88 g plant-1) and slightly greater grain yield (7.8 g plant-1) than that of race nana. Accessions
producing higher grain yield (>10 g plant-1; IPMr# 1021, 841, 1017, 1063, 983, 712, 1040) and for higher dry matter
yield (>133 g plant-1; IPMr# 858, 1043, 1070, 1063, 877) were identified. Due to its short duration and high biomass
yield, little millet an under-utilized crop has potential as bioenergy crop besides providing food and fodder. Research is
in progress to assess sequence variations linked with grain and biomass yields, and other important agronomic traits.
 
Date 2016-11
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10295/1/Pages%204.pdf
Vetriventhan, M and Upadhyaya, H D (2016) Little Millet, Panicum sumatrense, An Under-utilized Multipurpose Crop. In: 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress, New Delhi, India, November 06-09, 2016.