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Grant for improving pearl millet breeding efficiency
The Syngenta Foundation will sponsor research of direct relevance to its wider goal of improving the livelihoods of the resource poor.
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Syngenta Foundation
grant to ICRISAT for SSR markers for improving pearl
millet breeding efficiency in African and Asia
The goal of this research is to develop a set of 200
novel SSR markers for pearl millet from genomic, EST
and BAC libraries and make these publicly available.
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is the seventh most important cereal crop globally, and an important coarse grain food crop in Africa and South Asia. Among the cereals, it is a particularly hardy crop that can be grown in very diverse environments from sea level to about 2000 meters in elevation, and is the staple cereal crop for the hottest, driest regions where dryland agriculture is practiced.
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