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Genotype x environment interactions in food-feed traits in pearl millet cultivars

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Title Genotype x environment interactions in food-feed traits in pearl millet cultivars
 
Creator Hash, C T
Blummel, M
Bidinger, F R
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] stover
provides a crucial fodder resource for ruminant animals
in small-holder crop-livestock systems in most of the arid
and semi-arid zones of the Indian subcontinent (Kelley
and Rao 1996). This is especially the case where (1) the
dry season is too long (≥6 months) for native pasture
resources to maintain animals until the next rainy season;
and/or (2) increased population density has drastically
reduced the area of fallow/common property land which
traditionally provided dry-season grazing. One of the
most effective and least-cost options open to farmers to
increase both stover productivity and quality is the choice
of cultivar, provided that there are significant and stable
across-environment differences among cultivars for both
productivity and quality, and that emphasizing these does
not carry an unacceptable penalty in terms of reduction in
grain yield. The present work investigates these relationships for 30 cultivars grown for two consecutive years at three contrasting locations in India.
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1142/1/ISMN-47_153-157_2006.pdf
Hash, C T and Blummel, M and Bidinger, F R (2006) Genotype x environment interactions in food-feed traits in pearl millet cultivars. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter, 47. pp. 153-157.