relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/6117/
title: Inbreeding depression in pearl millet composites
creator: Rai, K N
creator: Andrews, D J
creator: Suresh Babu, V
subject: Millets
subject: Plant Pathology
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
description: The objective of this investigation was to examine the effects of one generation  of selfing on grain yield, plant height, head length, 1000 seed weight, and days to  flowering in the base populations as well as in three successive full sib recurrem  selection cycle bulks of the Medium Maturity Composite and Serere Composite-l of  pearl millet -[Penniseium americanum (L.) Leeke). The experimental materials consisted  of random mated bulks · and single generation selfed bulks from 400 random  pl~nts corresponding to each cycle (cycle 0 to 3) of both the composites. Results  showed that a.verage inbreeding depressions in both the composites were highest for  grain yield (25 % and 36 %) followed by 1000 seed weight (L2 % and 14 0/0). Plant height,days to flowering and --head length were least affected...............
publisher: Verlag Paul Parey
date: 1985
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/6117/1/Z%20%20Pflanzenzuchrg_94_201-207_1985.pdf
identifier:   Rai, K N and Andrews, D J and Suresh Babu, V  (1985) Inbreeding depression in pearl millet composites.  Zeitschrift fur Pflanzenzuchtung(Plant Breeding), 94.  pp. 201-207.  ISSN 1439-0523