Gowda, C L L and Rai, K N and Reddy, B V S and Saxena, K B, eds. (2006) Hybrid parents research at ICRISAT. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. ISBN 92-9066-489-4
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Abstract
Hybrid cultivars in maize revolutionalized agriculture in many countries, leading to substantial and sustained increase in production and productivity in the past five decades. This success was emulated by other crops, including sorghum and pearl millet. Recent discovery of cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterility (CMS) system in pigeonpea is paving way for the possible release of hybrid cultivars to increase productivity and production of this crop as well. This book has attempted to review the hybrid parents research at ICRISAT, to provide the available research information and knowledge to the global research and development community. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the evolution of hybrid parents research in sorghum, pearl millet and pigeonpea at ICRISAT, including the rationale and priority setting for conducting research on various aspects of hybrid parents. Individual chapters on sorghum, pearl millet and pigeonpea detail the historical aspects of research and development, changes in research priority to cope with user needs and research developments, and providing the latest scenarios for hybrid options. These crop chapters also contain research results and knowledge generated on various CMS systems and their usefulness in hybrid breeding, including efforts to diversify the CMS systems to prevent any future disease or insect pest epidemics. Public-private partnership is emerging globally. ICRISAT is a pioneer in enhancing this partnership to ensure that seed of hybrid cultivars is available to the resource-poor farmers at reasonable costs. The implication and relevance of ICRISAT’s hybrid parents research globally has been discussed.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | Mandate crops > Millets Mandate crops > Pigeonpea Mandate crops > Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Users 6 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2011 09:08 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2016 03:26 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/1572 |
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