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Characterization of ICRISAT-bred restorer parents of pearl millet

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Title Characterization of ICRISAT-bred restorer parents of pearl millet
 
Creator Gupta, S K
Bhattacharjee, R
Rai, K N
Kumar, M S
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), primarily grown for
grain production on more than 26 million ha in the arid
and semi-arid tropical (SAT) regions of Asia and Africa,
is a highly nutritious cereal crop with wide
agroecological adaptation. India, the largest producer of
this crop at global level, cultivates pearl millet on about
>9 million ha contributing to more than 90% area of the
crop in the Asian region. It is a highly cross pollinated
crop, and single-cross hybrids generally give 20–30%
more yield than open pollinated varieties (Rai et al.
2006). With the availability of commercially exploitable
cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterility (CMS) systems in
pearl millet, the national agricultural research system
(NARS) and the private seed sector in India focused their
breeding programs on hybrid development. This led to
the development and adoption of a diverse range and
large number of hybrids (>80 in 2011) and now occuping
>4.5 million ha area, which is about half of the total pearl
millet area being cultivated in India (Rai et al. 2006). The
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT) also aligned its breeding program to
develop promising hybrid parental lines for supporting
Asian pearl millet hybrid program...
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4712/1/Characterization_of_ICRISAT-bred_restorer_parents__pearl_millet.pdf
Gupta, S K and Bhattacharjee, R and Rai, K N and Kumar, M S (2011) Characterization of ICRISAT-bred restorer parents of pearl millet. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research, 9. 5pp.. ISSN 0973-3094