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Response to recurrent selection for stover feeding value in pearl millet variety ICMV 221

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Title Response to recurrent selection for stover feeding value in pearl millet variety ICMV 221
 
Creator Bidinger, F R
Blummel, M
Hash, C T
 
Subject Millets
 
Description In the more arid regions in which it is grown, pearl millet
[Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] commonly serves as a
source of both foodgrain for humans and dry fodder for
their ruminant livestock. Unfortunately, the feeding value
of crop residues (stover and chaff) from pearl millet that
has been harvested for grain is not high. Widely-adapted
pearl millet variety ICMV 221 (Witcombe et al. 1997)
was chosen as a base population for two cycles of
recurrent selection among full-sib progeny to assess
opportunities for improving the stover nutritional quality
of farmer-accepted open-pollinated cultivars. We report
here initial results from the first cycle of selection.
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1131/1/ISMN-47_113-116_2006.pdf
Bidinger, F R and Blummel, M and Hash, C T (2006) Response to recurrent selection for stover feeding value in pearl millet variety ICMV 221. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter, 47. pp. 113-116.