eprintid: 1491
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org
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creators_name: Rai, K N
creators_name: Kumar, K A
icrisatcreators_name: Rai, K N
icrisatcreators_name: Kumar, K A
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Niamey)
country: India
country: Niger
title: Pearl millet improvement at ICRISAT - an update
ispublished: pub
subjects: S1.5
full_text_status: public
abstract: This paper covers the areas of: (1) production constraints (plant architecture, plant pathogens, drought and stand establishment); (2) genetic resources (status and diversity); (3) genetic improvement (selection in landraces, hybridization and pedigree breeding, recurrent selection, backcross breeding, mutation breeding, cytoplasmic diversification and biotechnology); (4) cultivar development (open-pollinated cultivars, hybrids); and (5) collaboration with national agricultural research systems and networks.
date: 1994
publication: International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter
volume: 35
number: 1
pagerange: 1-29
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Rai, K N and Kumar, K A  (1994) Pearl millet improvement at ICRISAT - an update.  International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter, 35 (1).  pp. 1-29.      
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/1491/1/ISMN35_1-29_1994.pdf