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Mainstreaming traditional varieties and on-farm conservation of crop diversity for sustainable finger millet cultivation in Odisha, India.
Scientific reports - 20 Mar 2026
Padhee Arabinda Kumar, Varaprasad K S, Chellapilla Tara Satyavathi, Kurra Srinivasa Babu, Bhagyalaxmi S, Chaudhury Susanta Sekhar, Balam Dinesh, Das Biswa Sankar, Nayak Pulak Ranjan, Lekkala Swathi, Ghiuria Raimati, Ronda Venkateswarlu, Nanaiah Ganapathy Kuyyamudi
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Crop genetic diversity and in situ conservation of traditional varieties play a vital and complementary role in biodiversity conservation, capturing not only genetic resources but also the dynamic evolutionary processes that sustain them. In the present study, thirteen traditional Odisha finger millet varieties, selected from a larger set of 46 conserved by tribal millet farmers, were evaluated across four...
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