Project
Pearl Millet Breeding
Details
Project Code:
KSU-101
Start Date:
1984
End Date:
1991
CRSP Phase:
Not Available
Budget:
Not Available
Participants
Lead University:
Kansas State University
Other Partners:
Collaborating Scientists' Institutions: ICRISAT (India), SADCC/ICRISAT (Zimambwe); CNRA, Institute Senegalais de la Recherche Agronomique (Senegal); Mississippi State University, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Tissue Culture for Crops Project, Purdue University, Texas A&M University (US)
Principal Investigator(s):
W.D. Stegmeier; Bahraq Khaleeq
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
None
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Overview
Through collaboration with partners this project focused on improving drought tolerance, seed size and density, seedling stand establishment, lodging resistance, and grain yield of pearl millet.
Objectives
To develop widely adapted, early-maturing pearl millet populations, lines, germplasms, and hybrids with: a) improved drought tolerance, seed size and density, seedling stand establishment, lodging resistance, and grain yield; b) insect, disease, bird and Striga resistance; and c) acceptable food quality characteristics, To select and evaluate materials developed in this program under a wide range of environments and farming systems in the developing countries.
Outcomes
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