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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)