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Male-sterility systems in pigeonpea and their role in enhancing yield

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0523.2009.01752.x
 
Title Male-sterility systems in pigeonpea and their role in enhancing yield
 
Creator Saxena, K B
Sultana, R
Mallikarjuna, N
Saxena, R K
Kumar, R V
Sawargaonkar, S L
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Pigeonpea
 
Description Male-sterility has been successfully used for enhancing yield in a number of cereal and vegetable crops. In food legumes, this technology could never be used either due to non-availability of natural out-crossing system, or an efficient male-sterility system or both. Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a partially cross-pollinated food legume and recent success in breeding a stable male-sterility system has allowed breeders to exploit hybrid vigour for increasing yields. The cytoplasmic-nuclear male-sterility (CMS)-based hybrids have recorded 28.4% yield superiority over local checks in farmers' fields. This paper besides summarizing the reports of all the genetic and CMS systems, also discusses the prospects of utilizing these male-sterility systems in commercial hybrid breeding programmes.
 
Publisher Blackwell Publishing
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/2265/1/PlBreed129_2_125-134_2010.pdf
Saxena, K B and Sultana, R and Mallikarjuna, N and Saxena, R K and Kumar, R V and Sawargaonkar, S L and Varshney, R K (2010) Male-sterility systems in pigeonpea and their role in enhancing yield. Plant Breeding, 129 (2). pp. 125-134.