<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Identification of polymorphic SSR markers in elite genotypes of pearl millet and diversity analysis</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Kumar</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">C T</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Hash</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">G</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Singh</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Basava</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Srivastava</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Pearl millet is a climate-resilient crop of marginal agro-ecologies and semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. With&#13;
substantial nutritional qualities crop requires low inputs and is capable of giving economic returns. Development&#13;
of high-yielding hybrids is an important breeding objective for pearl millet worldwide. The knowledge of genetic&#13;
diversity is a prerequisite for developing superior hybrids. In the current study, attempts were made to evaluate&#13;
the diversity of 17 important Indian pearl millet inbred genotypes and one popular hybrid 9444 using fluorescent&#13;
labeled SSR markers. A total of 342 polymorphic alleles with an average of 4.62 alleles per primer were produced&#13;
from 74 SSR markers. Polymorphic information content (PIC) ranged from 0.10 to 0.89 with an average of 0.55.&#13;
A very low level of heterozygosity was detected in genotypes. The average genetic dissimilarity detected between&#13;
pairs of inbred lines was 0.66. Genetic dissimilarity estimates calculated among the inbred lines varied from&#13;
0.108 (AIMP-03 and AIMP-08) to a maximum of 0.851(AIMP-03/AIMP-08 and 81B). The results indicated that&#13;
sufficient genetic variability is available in studied genotypes which can be exploited through heterosis breeding&#13;
to develop hybrids. The study also presents a suit of SSR markers that could be effectively used for genetic diversity&#13;
analysis in pearl millet.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Pearl Millet</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Genetics and Genomics</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Food and Nutrition</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2020-02</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>