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EXPLOITING THE PEARL MILLET GENETIC DIVERSITY FOR IDENTIFICATION OF IRON AND ZINC DENSE SEED PARENTAL LINES

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Title EXPLOITING THE PEARL MILLET GENETIC DIVERSITY FOR IDENTIFICATION OF IRON AND ZINC DENSE SEED PARENTAL LINES
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Creator Mukesh Berwal
L K Chugh
Preeti Goyal
Ramesh Kumar
 
Subject Pearl Millet, Iron, Zinc, Biofortification, Seed Parents
 
Description It is the part of my Ph.D. Thesis work
Micronutrient malnutrition has been recognized as massive health issue, affecting over two billion people, mostly women, children and infants worldwide especially in
developing countries. Agricultural approaches including crop based food products and micronutrient (Fe and Zn) biofortified crop cultivars can provide the most cost effective and
sustainable solution for this problem. Micronutrient bio-fortification in agricultural crops can be done with conventional breeding strategies, because traits for micronutrient
enrichment exist within their genomes and can be used for considerable micronutrient levels in food grain crops without any significant negative impact on crop productivity. In the
efforts to address this problem, pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R.Br.), field trials were conducted during kharif 2013 and 2014, to investigate the magnitude of variation in Fe
and Zn contents. Composition of the genotypes tested was not affected to an appreciable extent by the growing season. During kharif 2013 and 2014, Fe content in 92 diverse
genotypes (Inbreds and B-lines) varied from 23 to 123 mg/kg and 28 to 101 mg/ kg while Zn content varied from 26 to 72 mg/kg and 34 to 70 mg/kg. The correlation co-efficient
between Fe and Zn content was positive and highly significant (r =0.523 to 0.702, p85 mg/kg grain Fe and >55 mg/kg grain Zn content, have the
potential to be used as seed parents for development of Fe and Zn biofortified pearl millet hybrids or composites.
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Date 2020-05-02T07:13:27Z
2020-05-02T07:13:27Z
2019-04-24
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Berwal MK, Goyal P, Chugh LK and Kumar R (2019). Exploiting the pearl millet genetic diversity for identification of iron and zinc dense seed. International Journal of Genetics. 11(5): 583-586.
0975-2862 & 0975-9158
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/35353
 
Language English
 
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Publisher BIOINFO publication