<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>Characterization of ICRISAT-bred Pearl Millet Restorer Parents</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Gupta</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K N</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Rai</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">D G</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Atkari</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S K C</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Ghouse</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L) R. Br.], primarily grown for grain&#13;
production on more than 26 m ha in the arid and semi-arid tropical (SAT)&#13;
regions of Asia and Africa, is a highly nutritious cereal crop with wide&#13;
agro- ecological adaptation. India, the largest producer of this crop at the&#13;
global level, cultivates pearl millet on about &gt;9 million ha contributing&#13;
to more than 90% area of the crop in the Asian region. It is a highly cross&#13;
pollinated crop, and single-cross hybrids generally give 20-30% more&#13;
yield than open pollinated varieties (Rai et al. 2006). With the availability&#13;
of commercially exploitable cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterility (CMS)&#13;
systems in pearl millet, the national agricultural research system (NARS)&#13;
and the private seed sector in India focused their breeding programs&#13;
on hybrid development. This led to the development and adoption of&#13;
a diverse range and large number of hybrids (&gt; 80 in 2011) and now&#13;
occupying &gt; 4.5 m ha area, which is about half the total pearl millet area&#13;
being cultivated in India (Rai et al. 2006). ICRISAT also aligned its breeding&#13;
program to developing promising hybrid parental lines in order to support&#13;
the Asian pearl millet hybrid program...</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Millets</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Pearl Millet</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Genetics and Genomics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2015</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>ICRISAT</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Monograph</mods:genre></mods:mods>