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Figure 100. ICRISA T plant quarantine scientists and quarantine officials of the Government of India
work together to assure minimum delay in import and export of seed materials.
I m p o r t of Seed M a t e r i a l
ICRISAT received 1 785 samples of sorghum,
pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea, and groundnut
along with seed material of some other crops
for use in our Farming Systems research program
from Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh,
Brazil, Colombia, England, Ethiopia, France,
Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines, Netherlands,
Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Thailand,
Upper Volta, USSR, USA, and Zambia (Table
81).
Bulk of the sorghum introductions came from
Ethiopia (413) and the USA (275) - Washington
12, Texas 16, Minnesota 17, Mississippi 18,
Illinois 22 {Shoot-fly resistant sorghum x
sugarcane crosses), Nebraska 81, and Purdue
109. These materials were imported to utilize
their yield, physiological, microbiological,
disease- and pest-resistance attributes and to fill
gaps in our germplasm collections. A total of 124
lines of pearl millet germplasm and disease
resistance material were introduced from Senegal
and Upper Volta.
Forty-eight chickpea cultivars were introduced
from Afghanistan, Australia, and Netherlands
under the germplasm exchange program.
Agricultural research agencies of France, Nigeria,
and Puerto Rico formed the main sources of
pigeonpea germplasm and breeding lines to
ICRISAT.
For groundnut improvement, 192 unrooted
cuttings of interspecific hybrids of Arachis spp.
were received from Dr. Phil Moss's collection at
232