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Importance Of Genetic Diversity Assessment In Crop Plants And Its Recent Advances: An Overview Of Its Analytical Perspectives, Mahalingam Govindaraj
Importance Of Genetic Diversity Assessment In Crop Plants And Its Recent Advances: An Overview Of Its Analytical Perspectives, Mahalingam Govindaraj
Mahalingam Govindaraj
The importance of plant genetic diversity (PGD) is now being recognized as a specific area since exploding population with urbanization and decreasing cultivable lands are the critical factors contributing to food insecurity in developing world.Agricultural scientists realized that PGD can be captured and stored in the formof plant genetic resources (PGR) such as gene bank,DNA library, and so forth, in the biorepository which preserve genetic material for long period. However, conserved PGR must be utilized for crop improvement in order to meet future global challenges in relation to food and nutritional security.This paper comprehensively reviews four important areas; (i) the …
Iniadi Pearl Millet Germplasm As A Valuable Genetic Resource For High Grain Iron, Mahalingam Govindaraj
Iniadi Pearl Millet Germplasm As A Valuable Genetic Resource For High Grain Iron, Mahalingam Govindaraj
Mahalingam Govindaraj
Crop biofortification is increasingly being recognized as a cost-effective and sustainable approach to address the widespread micronutrient malnutrition arising from Fe and Zn deficiencies. Pearl millet as a cereal crop species has higher Fe density than all other major cereals. Earlier studies in pearl millet have shown that breeding lines, hybrid parents, improved populations and composites having high Fe and Zn densities were often based largely or entirely on iniadi pearl millet germplasm. In an attempt to identify additional sources of high Fe density in this group of germplasm, 297 accessions were screened using Perl’s Prussian Blue staining, of which …
Pearl Millet Breeding Lines Developed At Icrisat:A Reservoir Of Variability And Useful Source, Mahalingam Govindaraj
Pearl Millet Breeding Lines Developed At Icrisat:A Reservoir Of Variability And Useful Source, Mahalingam Govindaraj
Mahalingam Govindaraj
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) conducts inter-disciplinary and partnership-based research for the genetic improvement of its mandate crops. During the 1970s and 1980s, the pearl millet improvement at ICRISAT, Patancheru, emphasized on: (i) developing a diverse range of traitspecific composites, based on the germplasm largely from the Western and Central Africa; (ii) improving them by the process of recurrent selection, principally for grain yield and downy mildew (Sclerospora graminicola (Sacc.) Schroet ) resistance; and (iii) developing open-pollinated varieties (OPVs)