CRP on Dryland Cereals - DC
Leader: Ashok Kumar Are, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT
Team
members: 2
Partner
organizations: 2
Budget 2024
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.
Atlas
Outputs
| Code | Type | Output Name | Leader | Co-leader | Deliverables | Commodity | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP2-7.6.1 |
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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 |
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Germplasm/breeding lines were evaluated for stability of resistance. | Ashok Kumar Are | 0 | Sorghum | ||
| FP2-7.6.3 |
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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 |
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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 |
Partners
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas-ICARDA
Lebanon, Beirut
CGIAR Center/Program (Center)
https://www.icarda.org/
