Holding On to Finger Millet

Durham, S. (2005) Holding On to Finger Millet. Agricultural Research, 53 (12). p. 12.

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Abstract

Cultivating new plant varieties is serious business--providing food and feed as well as ornamental plants for use in homes and landscapes. But an important step in developing new plants is to preserve germplasm from the not-so-new varieties. Agricultural Research Service agronomist Melanie Newman is the curator for finger millet and other warm-season cereals, forages, and turfgrasses. The finger millet collection, along with more than 83,400 samples of other agricultural crops, is held in the ARS Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit in Griffin, Georgia. There is just one species of finger millet (Eleusine coracana) in the collection--but 738 samples, or accessions, with several varieties among them. "It's crucial to agriculture to have a collection of plant material with key genetic traits," says Newman. For example, salt tolerance or drought resistance in turfgrass would be needed if water ..............

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: ARS(USA)
Subjects: Crop Improvement
Divisions: Millet
Depositing User: Mr. SanatKumar Behera
Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2012 09:25
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2012 09:33
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4166

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