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Genomics Assisted Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Millets

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Genomics Assisted Breeding of Crops for Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Vol. II

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity ((SDEB,volume 21))

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Large-scale genomic resources have been generated in sorghum, finger millet and pearl millet leading to availability of large number of molecular markers and transcriptome sequences. With the availability of genome sequence in sorghum, pearl millet, and others in progress, integration of genomic technologies in millet breeding has now started in general for most of the stresses. This has raised the status of millets to genome rich crops from resource poor crops. Genomics-assisted breeding is an advanced breeding approach, wherein both the genomic information and the phenotypic selection are considered concurrently for designing phenotypes. Genomics-assisted breeding is strongly supported by third generation DNA sequencing techniques, which have provided enormous nucleotide information. Data mining and allele identification tools have allowed us to generate information for genes of interest and their functional specificity. For genomics-assisted breeding the basic need is to have maximum genomic information, trait specific mapping populations and highly precise phenotyping facilities. In millets, whole genome sequence information of sorghum, pearl millet and foxtail millets are available, which can be utilized efficiently to identify candidate genes for abiotic stress tolerance and for advancing breeding strategies such as genomic selection. QTLs conferring stress tolerance have been identified in few of the major millet crops but fine mapping and development of gene specific markers for high throughput selection needs emphasis. This chapter is a brief account of the accomplishments made in field of genomics for important millet crops like sorghum, pearl millet, foxtail millet, proso millet etc. and its application in improving abiotic tolerance.

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  1. ICAR-AICRP on Pearl Millet, ARS Mandor, AU Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    C. Tara Satyavathi & V. Khandelwal

  2. ICAR-CAZRI, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    R. K. Solanki & R. K. Kakani

  3. Division of Genetics, ICAR-IARI, Pusa, New Delhi, India

    C. Bharadwaj & Tripti Singhal

  4. ICAR—National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India

    Jasdeep Padaria

  5. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Telangana, India

    Rakesh Srivastava

  6. Department of Biotechnology, JAU, Junagadh, Gujarat, India

    R. S. Tomar

  7. National Bioinformatics Grid, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi, India

    M. A. Iqubal

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Satyavathi, C.T. et al. (2019). Genomics Assisted Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Millets. In: Rajpal, V., Sehgal, D., Kumar, A., Raina, S. (eds) Genomics Assisted Breeding of Crops for Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Vol. II. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99573-1_13

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