CRP on Dryland Cereals - DC

Overview: FP2-6.24 - Improve grain and stover quality traits, including grain micronutrient content

FP2-6.23 - FP2-6.26


Leader: SK Gupta, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT

Team members: 2
Partner organizations: 2

Budget 2026
USD : 0

Outputs: 3

  Activity/Product Description
    
(1) Early generation hybrid parents with high grain Fe content available in diverse agronomically superior backgrounds. (2) Status of forage quality traits is available for current public and private bred cultivars. Forage quality status of hybrid parental lines is known. Information on genetic effects and stability of forage quality traits is available. (1) Pearl millet breeding programs have access to biofortified hybrid parents to develop hybrids rich in grain Fe and Zn content. (2) Breeders will develop hybrids to increase crop-livestock efficiency of farms.
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  Outputs
    
Code Type Output Name Leader Co-leader Deliverables Commodity View
FP2-6.24.1 Identification of high Zn- and Fe-containing barley accessions and their use in the barley breeding program for improved nutritional values. SK Gupta 0 Pearl millet, Tobacco
FP2-6.24.2 Improving grain quality and breeding for nutritional and market-prefferd traits in pearl millet. Ramesh Pal Singh Verma 0 Pearl millet, Tobacco, Pearl millet, Tobacco
FP2-6.24.3 Monitoring of forage quality traits in breeding dual-purpose hybrid parents. Ramesh Pal Singh Verma 0 Pearl millet, Tobacco, Pearl millet, Tobacco, Pearl millet, Tobacco
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