Identification of heterotic groups in South-Asian-bred hybrid parents of pearl millet
- 2 January 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
- Vol. 133 (3), 873-888
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-019-03512-z
Abstract
Pearl millet breeding programs can use this heterotic group information on seed and restorer parents to generate new series of pearl millet hybrids having higher yields than the existing hybrids.Keywords
Funding Information
- CGIAR Research Program on Dry land Cereals
- ICRISAT-Pearl Millet Hybrid Parent Research Consortium
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