<ctx:context-object xsi:schemaLocation="info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:ctx http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:ctx" timestamp="2022-10-01T06:58:21Z" xmlns:ctx="info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:ctx" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XML"><ctx:referent><ctx:identifier>info:oai:icrisat:12014</ctx:identifier><ctx:metadata-by-val><ctx:format>info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:oai_dc</ctx:format><ctx:metadata><oai_dc:dc xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
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        <dc:title>Morphological Characteristics of ICRISAT-bred Pearl Millet&#13;
Hybrid Seed Parents (2005-2018)</dc:title>
        <dc:creator>Gupta, S K</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Patil, S</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Boratkar, M</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Pujar, M</dc:creator>
        <dc:subject>Pearl Millet</dc:subject>
        <dc:description>Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L) R. Br.) is a major warm-season nutri-cereal grown on ~34 million&#13;
ha across the world with the majority of area (&gt;95%) in the arid and semi-arid tropical (SAT) regions of&#13;
Asia (~11 million ha) and Africa (~22 million ha) (FAO, 2020). India is the largest producer with an average&#13;
production of 9.35 million tonnes and productivity of 1391 kg ha-1 occupying an area of 7.41 million ha&#13;
(Directorate of Millets Development, 2021-22). It is a highly cross-pollinated crop with an outcrossing&#13;
rate of more than 85%. The protogynous flowering and wind-borne pollination favor cross-pollination,&#13;
making open-pollinated varieties (OPVs) as the natural cultivar state of this crop. However, OPVs, are not&#13;
amenable to achieving as much heterozygosity and the consequent heterosis as possible in single-cross&#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 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 plays a pivotal role in developing diverse range&#13;
of improved breeding lines and potential hybrid parents, leaving the development, testing and release of&#13;
hybrids to the NARS and the private sector.....</dc:description>
        <dc:publisher>ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India</dc:publisher>
        <dc:date>2022-09-30</dc:date>
        <dc:type>Monograph</dc:type>
        <dc:type>NonPeerReviewed</dc:type>
        <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
        <dc:language>en</dc:language>
        <dc:identifier>http://oar.icrisat.org/12014/1/Morphological%20Characteristics%20of%20ICRISAT-bred%20Pearl%20Millet%20Hybrid%20Seed%20Parents_low.pdf</dc:identifier>
        <dc:identifier>  Gupta, S K and Patil, S and Boratkar, M and Pujar, M  (2022) Morphological Characteristics of ICRISAT-bred Pearl Millet Hybrid Seed Parents (2005-2018).  Technical Report. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India.     </dc:identifier></oai_dc:dc></ctx:metadata></ctx:metadata-by-val></ctx:referent></ctx:context-object>