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Improving Finger Millet
Finger millet is an important staple crop of Southern India and East Africa. Classical breeding using a range of varieties combined with biotechnology approaches could yield varieties that have the characteristics required by the farmers but have a superior agronomic performance. UGA crop and soil scientists completed a finger millet rice comparative map, outlining the relationships between the genomes of finger millet and rice. Further microsatellite markers are being developed and mapped and will be made available to the developing world as tools for marker-assisted selection in finger millet. The comparative maps allow the exploitation of the rice genomic sequence in the study of finger millet. (2006)
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| Name | Department | |
| Katrien Devos | kdevos@uga.edu | Crop and Soil Sciences |