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Pearl millet: We constituted a pearl millet composite collection of 1000 accessions and grown for
characterization and regeneration during the rainy season (Table 4).
Table 4. Composition of pearl millet composite collection
Type of material
No. of accessions
Core collection 504
Tolerant to abiotic stresses
Drought 6
Heat 3
Salinity 20
Resistant to biotic stresses
Downy mildew 42
Ergot 20
Rust 23
Smut 15
Multiple disease resistant 8
High seed iron and zinc content (>42ppm) 4
High seed protein (>17%) 20
Yellow endosperm 2
Trait-specific selections 197
Sweet stalks 12
Forage type 8
Released cultivars 5
Gene pools 4
Wild relatives
P. mollissimum 6
P. orientale 1
P. pedicellatum 15
P. polystachion 15
P. ramosum 2
P. schweinfurthii 1
P. violaceum 20
Contribution from crop improvement 47
Total 1000
HD Upadhyaya, CT Hash, S Senthilval, RK Varshney,
DA Hoisington, KN Rai and RP Thakur.
Milestone C.2.1.2: Germplasm composite sets for finger millet (1000 accessions) and foxtail millet (500
accessions) established (HDU/CTH/DH/CLLG/RKV/SC, 2008)
Output target C.3: Germplasm composite sets genotyped, diversity analysed, population structure
assessed and reference sets of staple crops and small millets established (2010)
Activity C.3.1: Genotype composite collections for studying diversity and population structure and
developing reference sets of staple crops and small millets
Milestone C.3.1.1: Chickpea composite set (3000 accessions) genotyped with SSR markers in collaboration with
ICARDA (ICRISAT-HDU/SLD/DH/RKV/CLLG/SC; ICARDA- SMU, MB, BJF, 2006)
Composite collection of chickpea was developed based on available phenotypic, characterization, evaluation,
geographic origin, and taxonomic data. It includes 2271 cultivated and three wild genotypes from ICRISAT and
726 cultivated and 13 wild accessions from ICARDA. This composite collection was genotyped using high
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