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Conventional and Molecular Breeding Approaches for Biofortification of Pearl Millet

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11686/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04609-5_4
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04609-5_4
 
Title Conventional and Molecular Breeding Approaches for Biofortification of Pearl Millet
 
Creator Govindaraj, M
Yadav, O P
Srivastava, R K
Gupta, S K
 
Subject Plant Genetics
Pearl Millet
Biofortification
 
Description Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is an essential diet of more than 90
million people in the semi-arid tropics of the world where droughts and low fertility
of soils cause frequent failures of other crops. It is an important nutri-rich grain
cereal in the drier regions of the world grown on 26 mha by millions of farmers
(IFAD 1999; Yadav and Rai 2013). This makes pearl millet the sixth most important
crop in the world and fourth most important food crop of the India, next to rice,
wheat, and maize with annual cultivation over an area of ~8 mha. Pearl millet is also
primary food crop in sub-Saharan Africa and is grown on 15 mha (Yadav and Rai
2013). The significant increase in productivity of pearl millet in India is attributed
to development and adoption of hybrids of early to medium duration maturity. More
than 120 diverse hybrids/varieties have been released till date for various production
environments. The heterosis breeding and improved crop management technologies
increased productivity substantially achieving higher increased production of
9.80 mt in 2016–2017 from 2.60 mt in 1950–1951 in spite of declined of area under
the crop by 20–30% over last two decades (Yadav et al. 2012).
 
Publisher Springer
 
Contributor Qureshi, Asif M. Iqbal
Ahmad Dar, Zahoor
Hussain Wani, Shabir
 
Date 2019-02
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11686/1/Conventional%20and%20molecular%20breeding%20approaches%20for%20biofortification%20of%20p....pdf
Govindaraj, M and Yadav, O P and Srivastava, R K and Gupta, S K (2019) Conventional and Molecular Breeding Approaches for Biofortification of Pearl Millet. In: Quality Breeding in Field Crops. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 85-107. ISBN 978-3-030-04608-8