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        <dc:title>Characterization of ICRISAT Bred Pearl Millet Restorer Parents (2006-2019)</dc:title>
        <dc:creator>Gupta, S K</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Patil, S</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Kannan, R L</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Pujar, M</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Kumar, P</dc:creator>
        <dc:subject>Pearl Millet</dc:subject>
        <dc:description>Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L) R. Br.) is a major warm-season “nutricereal” grown on ~34 million&#13;
ha across the world with majority of area (&gt;95%) in the arid and semi-arid tropical (SAT) regions of Asia&#13;
(~11 million ha) and Africa (~22 million ha) (FAO, 2020). India being the largest producer with an average&#13;
production of 8.61 million tonnes and productivity of 1243 kg ha-1 occupies an area of 6.93 million ha&#13;
(Directorate of Millets Development, 2020). It is a highly cross-pollinated crop with an outcrossing rate&#13;
of more than 85%. The protogynous flowering and wind-borne pollination favors cross-pollination,&#13;
making open-pollinated varieties (OPVs) as the natural cultivar state of this crop. OPVs, however, are not&#13;
amenable to achieving as much heterozygosity and the consequent heterosis as it is possible in singlecross&#13;
hybrids. Furthermore, OPVs are highly heterogeneous and hence morphologically more variable than&#13;
single-cross hybrids. It has been observed that single-cross hybrids generally give 20-30% more grain yield&#13;
than OPVs (Rai et al. 2006). Based on these considerations, and with the availability of a commercially&#13;
exploitable cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterility (CMS), the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) in&#13;
India took the first significant step in the world to embark on grain hybrid development. With the rapid&#13;
growth of a vibrant seed industry, pearl millet research in India, both in the private and the public sector,&#13;
is now almost all directed towards hybrid breeding. In alignment with the regional priority in Asia region,&#13;
ICRISAT’s pearl millet improvement research at Patancheru playing a pivotal role in developing diverse&#13;
range of improved breeding lines and potential hybrid parents, leaving the development, testing and&#13;
release of hybrids to the NARS and the private sector.....</dc:description>
        <dc:publisher>ICRISAT</dc:publisher>
        <dc:contributor>Gupta, S K</dc:contributor>
        <dc:contributor>Patil, S</dc:contributor>
        <dc:contributor>Kannan, R L</dc:contributor>
        <dc:contributor>Pujar, M</dc:contributor>
        <dc:contributor>Kumar, P</dc:contributor>
        <dc:date>2022-09-30</dc:date>
        <dc:type>Monograph</dc:type>
        <dc:type>PeerReviewed</dc:type>
        <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
        <dc:language>en</dc:language>
        <dc:identifier>http://oar.icrisat.org/12012/1/Characterization%20of%20ICRISAT%20Bred%20Pearl%20millet%20Restorer%20Parents%20%282006-2019%29_low.pdf</dc:identifier>
        <dc:identifier>  Gupta, S K and Patil, S and Kannan, R L and Pujar, M and Kumar, P  (2022) Characterization of ICRISAT Bred Pearl Millet Restorer Parents (2006-2019).  Technical Report. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India.     </dc:identifier></oai_dc:dc></ctx:metadata></ctx:metadata-by-val></ctx:referent></ctx:context-object>