CRP on Dryland Cereals - DC

Overview: FP2-7.6 - Improve tolerance or resistance to biotic stresses

FP2-7.5 - FP2-7.7


Leader: Ashok Kumar Are, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT

Team members: 2
Partner organizations: 2

Budget 2026
USD : 0

Outputs: 4

  Activity/Product Description
    
Improved postrainy sorghum varieties, hybrid parents and hybrids with resistance to shoot fly, stem borer and charcoal rot. National program partners accessing diversified shoot fly and charcoal rot resistant postrainy sorghum materials for research.
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  Outputs
    
Code Type Output Name Leader Co-leader Deliverables Commodity View
FP2-7.6.1 Improved postrainy sorghum varieties, and hybrid parents and hybrids with resistance to shoot fly and charcoal rot are made available Ashok Kumar Are 0 Sorghum
FP2-7.6.2 Germplasm/breeding lines were evaluated for stability of resistance. Ashok Kumar Are 0 Sorghum
FP2-7.6.3 Diversity, mechanisms, and inheritance of resistance to insects and diseases were studied using molecular and biochemical techniques. Ashok Kumar Are Nora Baldoni 1 Sorghum
FP2-7.6.4 Sorghum transgenic events carrying Bt Cry genes were evaluated for gene expression and inheritance followed by evaluation for stem borer in insect bioassays. Ashok Kumar Are 0 Sorghum
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