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Understanding Heterosis, Genetic Effects, and Genome Wide Associations for Forage Quantity and Quality Traits in Multi-Cut Pearl Millet

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11929/
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.687859
doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.687859
 
Title Understanding Heterosis, Genetic Effects, and Genome Wide Associations for Forage Quantity and Quality Traits in Multi-Cut Pearl Millet
 
Creator Govintharaj, P
Maheswaran, M
Blümmel, M
Sumathi, P
Vemula, A K
Rathore, A
Sivasubramani, S
Kale, S M
Varshney, R K
Gupta, S K
 
Subject Pearl Millet
 
Description Pearl millet is an important food and fodder crop cultivated in the arid and semi-arid
regions of Africa and Asia, and is now expanding to other regions for forage purpose.
This study was conducted to better understand the forage quantity and quality traits to
enhance the feed value of this crop. Two sets of pearl millet hybrids (80 single cross
hybrids in Set-I and 50 top cross hybrids in Set-II) along with their parents evaluated
multi-locationally for the forage-linked traits under multi-cut (two cuts) system revealed
significant variability for the forage traits in the hybrids and parents. The mean better
parent heterosis (BPH) for total dry forage yield (TDFY) was 136% across all the single
cross hybrids and 57% across all the top cross hybrids. The mean BPH for in vitro
organic matter digestibility (IVOMD) varied from
 
Publisher Frontiers Media
 
Date 2021-11
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11929/1/Understanding%20Heterosis%2C%20Genetic%20Effects%2C%20and%20Genome%20Wide%20Associations%20for%20Forage%20Quantity%20and%20Quality%20Traits%20in%20Multi-Cut%20Pearl%20Millet.pdf
Govintharaj, P and Maheswaran, M and Blümmel, M and Sumathi, P and Vemula, A K and Rathore, A and Sivasubramani, S and Kale, S M and Varshney, R K and Gupta, S K (2021) Understanding Heterosis, Genetic Effects, and Genome Wide Associations for Forage Quantity and Quality Traits in Multi-Cut Pearl Millet. Frontiers in Plant Science (TSI), 12. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1664-462X