National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Pearl Millet is a principal food cereal cultivated in drought prone semi-arid regions of Africa and Indian subcontinent. The present investigation was carried out in F5 generation of pearl millet population at Department of Millets, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-03. Attempts were made to estimate total carotenoids and β carotene content of single cross combination, PT 6029 x PT 6129 and its selected promising progenies of F5 generation. The parent PT 6129 showed higher total carotenoids (8.99 µg/g) and β carotene content (1.71 µg/g) than the other parent and it is having yellow grain colour, while, the parent PT 6029 recorded grey colour grain with low β carotene content (0.61 µg/g) which indicated that yellow colour contributed to β carotene content. The progenies, TNBG-06-53-1-4-7 recorded high total carotenoids (8.10 µg/g) and β carotene (1.73 µg/g) followed by TNBG-06-81-10-9-9, TNBG-06-127-3-3-1, TNBG-06-81-4-8-6 and TNBG-06-3-3-6-1. Hence, these progenies provide a valuable basis for increasing β carotene through conventional breeding.
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