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Regeneration Guidelines Finger Millet

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Title Regeneration Guidelines Finger Millet
 
Creator Upadhyaya, H D
Reddy, V G
Sastry, D V S S R
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is an
important subsistence cereal in parts of Africa
and south Asia. The species has two subspecies,
africana (Kenn.-O’Byrne) K.W. Hilu & de Wet and
coracana (L.) Gaertn. Subspecies africana has two Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is an
important subsistence cereal in parts of Africa
and south Asia. The species has two subspecies,
africana (Kenn.-O’Byrne) K.W. Hilu & de Wet and
coracana (L.) Gaertn. Subspecies africana has two
races, africana and spontanea, while subspecies
coracana has four races: elongata, plana, compacta
and vulgaris (Prasada Rao et al. 1993). Finger millet
is mostly self-pollinating, with some amount of
cross-pollination (1%) mediated by wind (Jansen and Ong 1996; Purseglove 1972). Finger
millet is very adaptable to a wide range of environmental and climatic conditions, thrives
at higher elevations than most other tropical cereals and tolerates salinity better than most
cereals.

races, africana and spontanea, while subspecies
coracana has four races: elongata, plana, compacta
and vulgaris (Prasada Rao et al. 1993). Finger millet
is mostly self-pollinating, with some amount of
cross-pollination (1%) mediated by wind (Jansen and Ong 1996; Purseglove 1972). Finger
millet is very adaptable to a wide range of environmental and climatic conditions, thrives
at higher elevations than most other tropical cereals and tolerates salinity better than most
cereals.
 
Publisher CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resource Programme
 
Date 2008
 
Type Book Section
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4010/1/Regeneration_guidelines__Finger_millet_2008.pdf
Upadhyaya, H D and Reddy, V G and Sastry, D V S S R (2008) Regeneration Guidelines Finger Millet. In: Crop specific regeneration guidelines [CD-ROM]. CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resource Programme, Rome, Italy, pp. 1-7.