PMID- 34868099
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211207
IS  - 1664-462X (Print)
IS  - 1664-462X (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-462X (Linking)
VI  - 12
DP  - 2021
TI  - Understanding Heterosis, Genetic Effects, and Genome Wide Associations for Forage 
      Quantity and Quality Traits in Multi-Cut Pearl Millet.
PG  - 687859
LID - 10.3389/fpls.2021.687859 [doi]
LID - 687859
AB  - Pearl millet is an important food and fodder crop cultivated in the arid and 
      semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia, and is now expanding to other regions for 
      forage purpose. This study was conducted to better understand the forage quantity 
      and quality traits to enhance the feed value of this crop. Two sets of pearl 
      millet hybrids (80 single cross hybrids in Set-I and 50 top cross hybrids in 
      Set-II) along with their parents evaluated multi-locationally for the 
      forage-linked traits under multi-cut (two cuts) system revealed significant 
      variability for the forage traits in the hybrids and parents. The mean better 
      parent heterosis (BPH) for total dry forage yield (TDFY) was 136% across all the 
      single cross hybrids and 57% across all the top cross hybrids. The mean BPH for 
      in vitro organic matter digestibility (IVOMD) varied from -11 to 7% in the single 
      cross hybrids and -13 to 11% in the top cross hybrids across cuts. The findings 
      of TDFY and IVOMD heterosis in these sets indicated the potential of improvement 
      of the hybrid cultivars for forage quantity and quality in forage pearl millet. 
      The parental lines single cross parent (SCP)-L02, SCP-L06, and top cross parent 
      (TCP)-T08 found superior in the forage quantity and quality traits can be 
      utilized in the future breeding programs. Most of the forage traits were found to 
      be controlled by using the non-additive gene action. A diverse panel of 105 
      forage-type hybrid parents (Set-III) genotyped following genotyping by sequencing 
      (GBS) and phenotyped for crude protein (CP) and IVOMD under multi-cuts for 2 
      years identified one stable significant single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) on 
      LG4 for CP, and nine SNPs for IVOMD distributed across all the linkage groups 
      except on LG2. The identified loci, once validated, then could be used for the 
      forage quality traits improvement in pearl millet through marker-assisted 
      selection.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Govintharaj, Maheswaran, Blummel, Sumathi, Vemula, Rathore, 
      Sivasubramani, Kale, Varshney and Gupta.
FAU - Govintharaj, Ponnaiah
AU  - Govintharaj P
AD  - Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 
      Coimbatore, India.
AD  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 
      Patancheru, India.
FAU - Maheswaran, Marappa
AU  - Maheswaran M
AD  - Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 
      Coimbatore, India.
FAU - Blummel, Michael
AU  - Blummel M
AD  - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Patancheru, India.
FAU - Sumathi, Pichaikannu
AU  - Sumathi P
AD  - Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 
      Coimbatore, India.
FAU - Vemula, Anil Kumar
AU  - Vemula AK
AD  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 
      Patancheru, India.
FAU - Rathore, Abhishek
AU  - Rathore A
AD  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 
      Patancheru, India.
FAU - Sivasubramani, Selvanayagam
AU  - Sivasubramani S
AD  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 
      Patancheru, India.
FAU - Kale, Sandip Mallikarjun
AU  - Kale SM
AD  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 
      Patancheru, India.
FAU - Varshney, Rajeev Kumar
AU  - Varshney RK
AD  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 
      Patancheru, India.
FAU - Gupta, Shashi Kumar
AU  - Gupta SK
AD  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 
      Patancheru, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211118
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Plant Sci
JT  - Frontiers in plant science
JID - 101568200
PMC - PMC8636684
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - association mapping
OT  - biomass
OT  - gene annotation
OT  - general and specific combining ability
OT  - line x tester
OT  - non-additive gene action
OT  - single cross hybrids
OT  - top cross hybrids
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest. The handling editor declared a past collaboration with one 
      of the authors, RV.
EDAT- 2021/12/07 06:00
MHDA- 2021/12/07 06:01
PMCR- 2021/01/01
CRDT- 2021/12/06 09:08
PHST- 2021/03/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/10/14 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/12/06 09:08 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/12/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/12/07 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpls.2021.687859 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Plant Sci. 2021 Nov 18;12:687859. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.687859. 
      eCollection 2021.