<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>Marker applications in pearl millet</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><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">P J</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Bramel-Cox</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>There are a multitude of potential applications of DNA marker technologies to the&#13;
improvement of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.). This presentation will delve&#13;
into two major areas — the use of these molecular markers in pearl millet genetic diversity&#13;
studies and the use of molecular markers for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) to facilitate&#13;
marker-assisted (MA) breeding for economically important pearl millet traits having a large&#13;
genotype ´ environment component to their phenotypic variation. The discussion of pearl&#13;
millet genetic diversity studies builds on the general outline of this area presented earlier in this&#13;
course by Dr. Bramel-Cox. The discussions of QTL mapping and MA breeding in pearl millet&#13;
will be based largely on results obtained over the past nine years in a series of collaborative&#13;
projects involving the International Crops Research for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),&#13;
UK-based researchers supported by the Plant Sciences Programme (PSP) of the Department&#13;
for International Development (DFID, formerly the Overseas Development Administration&#13;
(ODA)) and based at the John Innes Centre for Plant Sciences Research (JIC, Norwich), the&#13;
University of Wales (UW, Bangor), and the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research&#13;
(IGER, Aberystwyth), and several public-sector agencies involved in pearl millet improvement&#13;
in India under the umbrella of the All-India Coordinated Pearl Millet Improvement Project&#13;
(AICPMIP).</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Millets</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">1999</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>IITA</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Monograph</mods:genre></mods:mods>