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Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] consensus linkage map constructed using four RIL mapping populations and newly developed EST-SSRs.
BMC genomics - 9 Mar 2013
Rajaram Vengaldas, Nepolean Thirunavukkarasu, Senthilvel Senapathy, Varshney Rajeev K, Vadez Vincent, Srivastava Rakesh K, Shah Trushar M, Supriya Ambawat, Kumar Sushil, Ramana Kumari Basava, Bhanuprakash Amindala, Narasu Mangamoori Lakshmi, Riera-Lizarazu Oscar, Hash Charles Thomas
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BACKGROUND: Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a widely cultivated drought- and high-temperature tolerant C4 cereal grown under dryland, rainfed and irrigated conditions in drought-prone regions of the tropics and sub-tropics of Africa, South Asia and the Americas. It is considered an orphan crop with relatively few genomic and genetic resources. This study was undertaken to increase the EST-based...
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