Journal Articles
Book Chapters
Conference Papers
Miscellaneous
In press/Accepted
Books

 

Journal Articles

Anjaiah V, Thakur RP and Koedam N. 2006. Evaluation of bacteria and Trichoderma for biocontrol of pre-harvest seed infection by Aspergillus flavus in groundnut. Biocontrol Science and Technology 16:431-436.

Anjaiah V and Gabriel DW. 2006. Stable transformation of Xylella fastidiosa with small repW shuttle vector pUFR047. Current Science 90(3):344-347.

Bidinger FR, Bhasker Raj AG and Hash CT. 2006. Zonal adaptation in pearl millet cultivar types. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 66:207-211.

Chander Rao S, Kumar PL, Reddy AS, Swamy Krishna T, Waliyar F, Nigam SN, Laxminarasu M and Sharma KK. 2006. Evaluation of transgenic peanut plants against peanut bud necrosis disease (PBND) under greenhouse and field conditions. Indian Journal of Virology 17(2):135.

Craufurd PQ, Prasad PVV, Waliyar F and Taheri A. 2006. Drought, pod yield, pre-harvest Aspergillus infection and aflatoxin contamination on peanut in Niger. Field Crops Research 98:20-29.

Dhillon MK and Sharma HC. 2006. Effect of storage duration and temperature on viability of eggs of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 96:1-5.

Dhillon MK, Sharma HC, Folkertsma RT and Chandra S. 2006 . Genetic divergence and molecular characterization of sorghum hybrids and their parents for reaction to Atherigona soccata (Rondani). Euphytica 149: 199-210

Dhillon MK, Sharma HC, Folkertsma RT and Chandra S. 2006. Genetic divergence and molecular characterization of sorghum hybrids and their parents for reaction to Atherigona soccata (Rondani). Euphytica 149:199-210

Dhillon MK, Sharma HC, Naresh JS, Singh R and Pampapathy G. 2006. Influence of cytoplasmic male-sterility on expression of different mechanisms of resistance in sorghum to Atherigona soccata (Diptera: Muscidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 99(4):1452-1461.

Dhillon MK, Sharma HC, Ram Singh and Naresh JS. 2006. Influence of cytoplasmic male-sterility on expression of physico-chemical traits associated with resistance to sorghum shoot fly, Atherigona soccata. SABRAO Journal for Breeding and Genetics 38(2):105-122

Dhillon MK, Sharma HC, Reddy BVS, Singh R and Naresh JS. 2006. Inheritance of resistance to sorghum to shoot fly, Atherigona soccata. Crop Science 46:1377-1383.

Hiraoka Y, Terauchi T, Iwama K, Jitsuyama Y, Kashiwagi J and Gaur PM. 2006. The differences in soil water absorption between four chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) varieties with different root characters. Japanese Journal of Crop Science 221 (Extra Issue): 202-203

Jayashree B, Crouch JH, Prasad PVNS and Hoisington DA. 2006. A database of annotated tentative orthologs from crop abiotic stress transcripts. Bioinformation 1(6): 225-227. Open access: http://www.bioinformation.net/001/005700012006.pdf

Jayashree B, Punna P, Prasad P, Bantte K, Tom Hash C, Chandra S, Hoisington DA and Varshney RK. 2006. A database of simple sequence repeats from cereal and legume expressed sequence tags mined in silico: survey and evaluation. In Silico Biology 0054 ( http://www.bioinfo.de/isb/2006/06/0054/ )

Jayashree B, Ramu Punna, Prasad P, Kassahun Bantte, Hash CT, Chandra S, Hoisington DA and Varshney RK. 2006. A database of simple sequence repeats from cereal and legume expressed sequence tags mined in silico: survey and evaluation. In Silico Biol. 6, 0054 2006. Open access: http://www.bioinfo.de/isb/2006/06/0054/

Jayashree B, Reddy PT, Leeladevi Y, Crouch JH, Mahalakshmi V, Buhariwalla HK, Eshwar KE, Mace ES, Folkertsma RT, Senthilvel S, Varshney RK, Seetha K, Rajalakshmi R, Prasanth VP, Chandra S, Swarupa L, Sri Kalyani P and Hoisington DA. 2006. Laboratory information management software for genotyping workflows: applications in high throughput crop genotyping. BMC Bioinformatics
( http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/383 )

Jayashree B, Reddy PT, Leeladevi Y, Crouch JH, Mahalakshmi V, Buhariwalla HK, Eshwar K, Mace ES, Folkertsma RT, Senthilvel S, Varshney RK, Seetha K, Rajalakshmi R, Prasanth VP, Chandra S, Swarupa L, Sri Kalyani P and Hoisington DA. 2006. Laboratory Information Management Software for genotyping workflows: applications in high throughput crop genotyping BMC Bioinformatics 7:383 (17 Aug 2006) open–access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/383

Kamala V, Bramel PJ, Sivaramakrishnan S, Chandra S, Seetha Kannan, Harikrishna S and Manohar Rao D. 2006. Genetic and phenotypic diversity in downy-mildew-resistant sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] germplasm. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 53:1243–1253

Kashiwagi J, Krishnamurthy L, Crouch JH and Serraj R. 2006. Variability of root length density and its contributions to seed yield in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) under terminal drought stress. Field Crops Research 95:171-181

Kashiwagi J, Krishnamurthy L, Singh S, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Panwar JDS, Basu PS, Ito O and Tobita S. 2006. Relationships between transpiration efficiency and carbon isotope discrimination in chickpea (C. arietinum L.). Journal of SAT Agricultural Research 2(1). Available online at http://www.icrisat.org/Journal/ cropimprovement/v2i1/v2i1relationships_transpiration.pdf

Khairwal IS, Yadav YP and Hash CT. 2006. Evaluation of HHB 67 like pearl millet hybrids under dryland conditions. Annals of Arid Zone 44(1):71–73.

Kumar PL, Jones AT and Waliyar F. 2006. Pigeonpea sterility mosaic disease: Challenges in understanding etiology and possible solutions. Indian Journal of Virology 17(2):115.

Mace ES, Phong DT, Upadhyaya HD, Chandra S and Crouch JH. 2006. SSR analysis of cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) germplasm resistant to rust and late leaf spot diseases. Euphytica 152:317-330.

Mallikarjuna Swamy BP, Upadhyaya HD and Kenchana Goudar PV. 2006. Characterization of Asian core-collection of groundnut for morphological traits. Indian Journal of Crop Science 1:129-134

Mariac C, Luong V, Kapran I, Mamadou A, Sagnard F, Deu M, Chantereau J, Gerard B, Ndjeunga J, Bezancon G, Pham JL and Vigouroux Y. 2006. Diversity of wild and cultivated pearl millet accessions [Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br.] in Niger assessed by microsatellite markers. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 114:49–58.

Mgonja MA, Chandra S, Monyo ES, Obilana AB, Chisi M, Saadan HM, Kudita S and Chinhema E. 2006. Stratification of SADC regional sorghum testing sites based on grain yield of varieties. Field Crops Research 96L11)25-30.

Millan T, Clarke HJ, Siddique KHM, Buhariwalla HK, Gaur PM, Kumar J, Gil J, Kahl G and Winter P. 2006. Chickpea molecular breeding: New tools and concepts. Euphytica 147: 81-103.

Ranga Rao GV, Sireesha K and Kumar PL. 2006. Role of nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPV) in the management of Helicoverpa armigera Hubner: Current status and future prospects. Indian Journal of Virology 17(2):156-157.

Reddy AS, Kumar PL, Nigam SN and Waliyar F. 2006. Effect of virus titer and date of inoculation on infectivity of peanut bud necrosis (PBNV), tobacco streak virus (TSV), and Indian peanut clump virus (IPCV) to groundnut. Indian Journal of Virology 17(2):146.

Sharma HC, Dhillon MK and Reddy BVS. 2006. Expression of resistance to Atherigona soccata in F1 hybrids involving shoot fly resistant and susceptible cytoplasmic male-sterile and restorer lines of sorghum. Plant Breeding 125: 473-477.

Sharma KK, Kumar PL, Waliyar F, Nigam SN, Lavanya M, Reddy AS and Swamy Krishna T. 2006. Development and evaluation of transgenic peanuts for induced resistance to the Indian peanut clump virus. Indian Journal of Virology 17(2):112.

Sharma KK, Lavanya M and Anjaiah V. 2006. Agrobacterium-mediated production of transgenic pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) expressing the synthetic Bt cry 1Ab gene. In Vitro Cell Dev. Biol. - Plant 42 (2):165-173.

Sireesha K, Ranga Rao GV and Lava Kumar P. 2006. Biological and molecular characterization of six isolates of Helicoverpa armigera Nucleopolyhedrovirus (HaNPV) from different geographic locations, India 2006. Indian Journal of Virology, Official Publication of Indian Virological Society 17(2):156-157.

Sireesha K, Ranga Rao GV, Arjuna Rao P and Kumar PL. 2006. Biological and molecular characterization of six isolates of Helicoverpa armigera Nucleopolyhedrovirus (HaNPV) from different geographic locations India. Indian Journal of Virology 17(2):160.

Sreenivasulu P, Ramesh B and Kumar PL. 2006. Vector-borne viruses of banana and plantain (Musa spp.) occurring in semi-arid tropics. Indian Journal of Virology 17(2):115.

Subba Reddy ChV, Sreenivasulu P and Kumar PL. 2006. Detection of sugarcane streak mosaic virus (SCSMV) in sugarcane explants meant to generate virus-free sugarcane by tissue culture technology. Indian Journal of Virology 17(2):130.

Upadhyaya HD, Furman BJ, Dwivedi SL, Udupa SM, Gowda CLL, Baum M, Crouch. JH, Buhariwalla HK and Singh Sube. 2006. Development of a composite collection for mining germplasm possessing allelic variation for beneficial traits in chickpea. Plant Genetic Resources 4:13-19.

Upadhyaya HD, Gowda CLL, Buhariwalla HK and Crouch JH. 2006. Efficient use of crop germplasm resources: Identifying useful germplasm for crop improvement through core and mini core subsets and molecular marker approaches. Plant Genetic Resources 4:25-35.

Van Oosterom EJ, Weltzien E, Yadav OP and Bidinger FR. 2006. Grain yield components of pearl millet under optimum conditions can be used to identify germplasm with adaptation to arid zones. Field Crops Research 96:407-421.

Varshney RK, Hoisington DA and Tyagi AK. 2006. Advances in cereal genomics and applications in crop breeding. Trends in Biotechnology 24:490-499.

Book Chapters

Azhaguvel P, Vidya Saraswathi D, Sharma A and Varshney RK. 2006. Methodological advancement in molecular markers to delimit the gene(s) for crop improvement. Pages 460-469 in Floriculture, Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology: Advances and Topical Issues (Teixera da Silva J, ed.). Global Science Books, London, UK.

Bhatnagar-Mathur P, Daniel Nakkapalli S, Anjaiah V, Kirti PBK and Sharma KK. 2006. Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of peanut. Pages 282-312. in “Handbook of new technologies for genetic improvement of legumes”, (Kirti PB, ed.), The Haworth Press, Inc. NY, USA.

Elangovan M, Reddy BVS, Audilakshmi S, Indira S, Singh BU, Gopal Reddy V, Kameswara Rao N and Seetharama N. 2006. Sorghum. Pages 160-185 in Plant Genetic Resources: Foodgrain Crops (Dhillon BS, Saxena S, Agrawal A and Tyagi RK, eds.). New Delhi, India: Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources.

Koebner RMD and Varshney RK. 2006. The development and application of genomic models for large crop plant genomes. Pages 1-10 in Model Plants and Crop Improvement (Varshney RK and Koebner RMD, eds.), CRC Press, Florida, USA.

Kumar PL, Jones AT and Waliyar F. 2006. Virus diseases of pigeonpea, with particular reference to sterility mosaic and yellow mosaic diseases. Pages 235-258 in (Vol. 3) Characterization, Diagnosis and Management of Plant Viruses: Vegetable and Pulse Crops (Rao GP, Kumar PL and Penna RJH, eds.). Studium Press LLC, Texas, USA.

Kumar PL, Kumari SG and Waliyar F. 2006. Virus diseases of chickpea. Pages 213-234 in (Vol. 3) Characterization, Diagnosis and Management of Plant Viruses: Vegetable and Pulse Crops (Rao GP, Kumar PL and Penna RJH, eds.). Studium Press LLC, Texas, USA.

Pande S, Rao PP, Waliar F, Blümmel M and Lakshmi Reddy. 2006. Effects of plant diseases on crop residues used for peri-urban dairy production on the Deccan Plateau. Pages 145-146 in Perspectives on Pests II - Achievements of Research 2000-05 (Sweetmore A, Kimmins F and Silverside P, eds.). UK: Department for International Development Crop Protection Programme.

Paterson AH, Stalker HT, Gallo-Meagher M, Burow MD, Dwivedi SL, Crouch JH, Rai KN, Kulkarni VN, Thakur RP, Haussmann BIG and Mgonja MA. 2006. Pearl millet hybrids parents research: Approaches and achievements. Pages 11-73 in Hybrid Parents Research at ICRISAT (Gowda CLL, Rai KN, Reddy Belum VS and Saxena KB, eds.). Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. ISBN 92-9066-489-4.

Reddy BVS, Ramesh S, Gowda CLL and Seetharama N. 2006. Global sorghum improvement research and its relevant to India. Pages 93-117 in Strategies for Millet Development and Utilization: Inaugural Souvenir of Society for Millets Research (Seetharama N and Tonapi VA, eds.). Society for Millets Research. 11-127, National Research Center for Sorghum, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500 030, Andhra Pradesh, India. 232 pp.

Reddy BVS, Ramesh S, Sharma HC, Thakur RP, Fred Rattunde, Mary Mgonja, Hash CT and Vadez V. 2006. Sorghum hybrid parents research at ICRISAT – Strategies and impacts. Pages 75-165 in Hybrid Parents Research at ICRISAT (Gowda CLL, Rai KN, Reddy BVS and Saxena KB, eds.), Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. ISBN 92-9066-489-4.

Upadhyaya HD, Baum M, Buhariwalla HK, Udupa SM, Furman, BJ, Dwivedi SL, Hoisington DA, Gaur PM, Chandra S, Gowda CLL, Crouch JH and Valkoun J. 2006. Mining chickpea composite collection for allelic avariation. Page 25 in Molecular Markers in Allele Mining (de Vicente MC, and Glaszmann JC, eds.). Proceedings of a Workshop, 22-26 August, MS Swaminathan Reseach Foundation, Chennai, India. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy.

Varshney RK, Hoisington DA, Upadhyaya HD, Gaur PM, Nigam SN, Saxena KB, Vadez V, Bhatia S, Aruna R and Gowda MVC. 2006. Molecular breeding of grain legume crops of semi-arid tropics. In Genomics Assisted Crop Improvement. (Varshney RK and Tuberosa R, eds.), Springer, in press.

 

Conference Papers

Chander Rao S, Kumar PL, Reddy AS, Swamy Krishna T, Waliyar F, Nigam SN, Laxminarasu M and Sharma KK. 2006. Development and evaluation of transgenic peanut plants against peanut bud necrosis disease (PBND) under greenhouse and field conditions. Pages 101-102 in Proceedings of XVI Annual Convention and International Symposium on Management of Vector-Borne Viruses, 7-10 Feb 2006, ICRISAT Center, Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India. Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: ICRISAT.

Deshpande SP, Folkertsma RT, Mehtre SP, Sharma HC, Hash CT, Reddy BVS and Borikar ST. 2006. Genetic studies and QTL mapping for shoot fly resistance and its components traits in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench. Paper presented in XIV International Conference on Plant and Animal Genome, 10–14 Jan, San-Diego, California, USA.

Dhillon MK, Sharma HC and Romeis J. 2006. Influence of Bacillus thuringiensis ?-endotoxins and Helicoverpa–resistant chickpea genotypes on development and survival of the parasitoid, Campoletis chlorideae. Page 12 in Annual Pulse Network Meeting 5-7 Dec 2006, Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Delhi, India.

Hamilton RS, Sie M, Valkoun J, Upadhyaya HD and Mahalkshmi V. 2006. The need for allele mining: Perspectives of the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP). Pages 67-68 in Molecular Markers in Allele Mining (de Vicente MC and Glaszmann JC, eds.). Proceedings of a Workshop, 22-26 Aug, MS Swaminathan Reseach Foundation, Chennai, India. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy.

Latha TKS, Aparna V, Siva Prasad R, Kumar PL, Chauhan VB and Waliyar F. 2006. Recent advances in the detection of Pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus: Pages 119-120 in proceedings of an International Symposium on Management of Vector-Borne Viruses, 7–102006 (MONTH AND YEAR) Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

Sharma HC and Dhillon MK. 2006. Effect of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins and transgenic plants on survival and development of the parasitoid, Campoletis chlorideae, and the coccinellid predator, Cheilomenes sexmaculatus. Page 17 in Annual Pulse Network Meeting, 2-4 Feb 2006, Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, AP, India.

Sharma HC and Dhillon MK. 2006. Effect of Bacillus thuringiensis ?-endotoxins on the Helicoverpa parasitoid, Campoletis chlorideae and the coccinellid predator, Cheilomenes sexmaculatus. Page 14 in Annual Pulse Network Meeting 5-7 Dec 2006, Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Delhi, India.

Sharma KK, Bhatnagar-Mathur P, Sai Vishnu Priya K, Anjaiah V, Vadez V, Waliyar F, Kumar PL, Nigam SN and Hoisington DA. 2006. Genetic engineering of groundnut for crop improvement. Proceedings of an International Conference on Groundnut Aflatoxin Management and Genomics, 5-10 Nov 2006, Gungdon Hotel, Guangzhou, China.

Sharma KK, Lava Kumar P, Waliyar F, Nigam SN, Lavanya M, Reddy AS and Swamy Krishna T. 2006. Development and evaluation of transgenic peanuts for induced resistance to the Indian peanut clump virus. Page 37 in Proceedings of XVI Annual Convention and International Symposium on Management of Vector-Borne Viruses, 7-10 Feb 2006, ICRISAT, Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India. Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: ICRISAT.

Sudarshan Reddy A, Lava Kumar P, Nigam SN and Waliyar F. 2006. Effect of virus titer and date of inoculation on infectivity of peanut bud necrosis (PBNV), Tobacco Streak virus (TSV), and Indian Peanut clump virus (IPCV) to groundnut. Page 121 in Proceedings of XVI Annual Convention and International Symposium on Management of Vector-Borne Viruses, 7-10 Feb 2006, ICRISAT Center, Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India. Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India: ICRISAT.

Upadhyaya HD, Dwivedi SL, Hoisington DA, Gaur PM, Varshney RK, Gowda CLL, Chandra S, Singh S, Baum M, Udupa SM and Furman BJ. 2006. Genotyping chickpea composite collection. Paper presented in the Generation Challenge Program Annual Research Meeting, 12-16 Sep 2006, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Vadez V, Krishnamurthy L, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Hoisington DA and Varshney RK. 2006. Genetic variability for salinity tolerance in chickpea. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Legume Genomics and Genetics, 9-13 Apr 2006, Brisbane, Australia.

Vadez V, Krishnamurthy L, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Hoisington DA, Varshney RK, Turner NC and Siddique KHM. 2006. Tapping the large genetic variability for salinity tolerance in chickpea. In Proceedings of 13th Australian Society of Agronomy Conference, 10-14 Sep 2006, Perth, Australia. Available online at http://www.regional.org.au/au/asa/2006/concurrent/environment/4561_vadez.htm

Vadez V, Krishnamurthy L, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Hoisington DA, Varshney RK, Turner NC and Siddique KHM. 2006. Tapping the large genetic variability for salinity tolerance in chickpea. Paper presented in Australian Society of Agronomy Meeting, 10-14 Sep, Perth, Australia.

Valluru R, Rizvi SMH, CT Hash and Vadez V. 2006. Efficient Microdosing of Phosphorus to Pearl millet Hybrids (Pennisetum americanum L.) for Improved Seedling Establishment under Nutrient-Stressed Environments. Proceeding of the National conference on the role of plant physiology and biotechnology in biodiversity conservation and agriculture productivity, 24-26 Feb 06, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Varshney RK and Hoisington DA. 2006. Functional molecular markers in plant breeding. Pages 65-70 in National Training Programme on Molecular Marker Technology, Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), Hyderabad.

Varshney RK. 2006. Workshop, genomics assisted breeding. International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, USA, 4-18 Jan 2006.

Vellaikumar S, Khan A, Bidinger F, Hash CT and Blümmel M. 2006. Variations in fodder value of pearl millet stover when fed to sheep. Page 14 in Technological Interventions in Animal Nutrition for Rural Prosperity (Bakshi MPS and Wadhwa M, eds.). Animal Nutrition Society of India & Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

Waddington SW, Rollin D and Masenya M. 2006. Livelihoods in the Limpopo: CGIAR Challenge program on Water and Food project no.1 (WFPN1): Increased Food Security and Income in the Limpopo Basin through integrated crops, soil fertility and water management options and links to markets. Proceedings of the WFPN1 Inception Workshop 25-27 Jan 2005, Polokwane, South Africa. PO Box 39063 Nairobi. International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics. 132 pp.

Waliyar F, Craufurd P, Padmaja KV, Reddy RK, Reddy SV, Nigam SN and Kumar PL. 2006. Effect of soil application of lime, crop residue and biocontrol agents on pre-harvest Aspergillus flavus infection and aflatoxin contamination in groundnut. In Proceedings of an International Conference on Groundnut Aflatoxin Management and Genomics, 5-10 Nov 2006, Gungdon Hotel, Guangzhou, China.

Waliyar F, Kumar PL, Nigam SN, Sharma KK, Aruna R, Hoisington D and Gowda CLL. 2006. Strategies for the management of aflatoxin contamination. In International Conference on Groundnut Aflatoxin: Proceedings of an International Conference on Groundnut Aflatoxin Management and Genomics, 5-10 Nov 2006, Gungdon Hotel, Guangzhou, China.

Waliyar F, Kumar PL, Sharma KK, Nigam SN and Hoisington D. 2006. Integrated multidisciplinary approach for containing aflatoxin-linked malnutrition in humans and animals: Proceedings of an International Conference on Biotechnological Approaches for alleviating malnutrition and health, 9-11 Jan 2006, University of Agriculture Sciences-Bangalore, India.

Weltzien E, Christinck A, Toure A, Rattunde HFW, Diarra M, Sangare A and Coulibaly M. 2006. Enhancing farmers’ access to sorghum varieties through scaling up participatory plant breeding in Mali, West-Africa. In Bringing Farmers back to Breeding. Experiences with participatory Plant Breeding and Challenges for Institutionalization (Almekinders C and Hardon J, eds.). Agromisa Special, Agromisa, Wageningen. 140 pp.

Weltzien E, Rattunde HFW, Clerget B, Siart S, Toure A and Sagnard F. 2006. Sorghum diversity and adaptation to drought in West-Africa. Pages 31-38 in Enhancing the use of crop genetic diversity to manage abiotic stress in agricultural production systems (Jarvis D, Mar I and Sears L, eds.). Proceedings of a workshop, 23-27 May 2005, Budapest, Hungary. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy.

Zaid Abdul-Hadi, Siham Asaad, Bassam Bayaa, Mohamed Dahab, Soliman Edris, Said El-Azhary, Khaled El-Bahnasy, Abdel Rahaman El-sayed, Mohamed El-Zemaity, Stefania Gando, Habib Ketata, SAFAA KUMARI, Rajendra Malhotra, Moussa Mosaad, Suresh Pande, Ahmed Rafea, Ahmed Ragab, Ranga Rao GV, Ahmed Said, Ashraf Shata and Amor Yehyaoui. 2006. Rapid generation of plant protection expert systems. Pages 282-287 in Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources (Fedro Zazueta, Jiannong Xin, Seishi Ninomiya and Gerhard Schiefer, eds.). Published by American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph, Michigan 49085-9659, USA.

 

Miscellaneous

Bidinger FR, Blümmel M and Hash CT. 2006. Response to recurrent selection for stover feeding value in pearl millet. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 47: 113-116.

Bidinger FR, Blümmel M and Hash CT. 2006. Favorable response to recurrent selection for stover feeding value in pearl millet variety ICMV 221. International Sorghum and Millet Newsletter 47:113-117.

Dhillon MK, Sharma HC, Pampapathy G and Reddy BVS. 2006. Cytoplasmic male-sterility effects expression of resistance to shoot bug (Peregrinus maidis), sugarcane aphid (Melanaphis sacchari) and spotted stem borer (Chilo partellus) in sorghum. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 47:66-68.

Hash CT, Blümmel M and Bidinger FR. 2006. Genotype × environment interactions in food-feed traits in pearl millet cultivars. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 47: 153-157.

Hash CT, Thakur RP, Rao VP and Bhaskar Raj G. 2006. Evidence for enhanced resistance to diverse isolates of pearl millet downy mildew through gene pyramiding. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 47:134-138.

Haussman BIG, Boureima SS and Bidinger FR. 2006. Evaluation of a medium maturity, high-tillering pearl millet population diallel in Niger. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 47:117-119.

Kashiwagi J, Krishnamurthy L, Singh S, Gaur PM and Upadhyaya HD. 2006. Variation of SPAD chlorophyll meter readings (SCMR) in the mini-core germplasm collection of chickpea. International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter 13:16-18.

Kashiwagi J, Krishnamurthy L, Singh S, Gaur PM, Upadhyaya HD, Panwar JDS, Basu PS, Ito O and Tobita S. 2006. Relationships between transpiration efficiency and carbon isotope discrimination in chickpea (C. arietinum L.). International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter 13:19-21.

Nepolean T, Blümmel M, Bhasker Raj AG, Rajaram V, Senthilvel S and Hash CT. 2006. QTLs controlling yield and stover quality traits in pearl millet. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 47:149-152.

Pande S, Ramgopal D, Kishore GK, Mallikarjuna N, Sharma M, Pathak M and Narayana Rao J. 2006. Evaluation of wild Cicer species for resistance to Ascochyta blight and Botrytis gray mold in controlled environment at ICRISAT, Patancheru, India. International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter 13:25-27.

 

In press/Accepted

Waliyar F, Siambi M, Jones R, Reddy SV, Chibonga D, Kumar PL, Denloye S and Chinoko Y. 2006. Institutionalizing aflatoxin testing in Africa. In Mycotoxins: Detection Methods, Management, Public Health and Agricultural Trade (Leslie JF, Bandyopadhyay R and Visconti A, eds.). CABI Publishing, UK (In press).


Mace ES, Phong DT, Upadhyaya HD, Chandra S and Crouch JH. 2006. SSR analysis of cultivated groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) germplasm resistant to rust and late leaf spot diseases. Euphytica.

Mace ES, Yuejin W, Boshou L, Upadhyaya HD, Chandra S and Crouch JH. 2006. SSR-based diversity analysis of groundnut ,(Arachis hypogaea L.) germplasm resistant to bacterial wilt. Plant Genetic Resources (In press).

Nigam SN and Chandra S. 2002. Selection index and selection efficiency definitions. In Proceedings of ACIAR WUE-GN Workshop (In press).

Odeny DA, Jayashree B, Ferguson M, Hoisington D, Crouch JH and Gebhardt C. 2006. Development, characterisation and utilisation of microsatellite markers in pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]. Plant Breeding (In press).

Stevenson PC, Dhillon MK, Sharma HC and El Bouhssini, M. 2006. Insect Pests of Lentil and Their Management. In Lentil: An Ancient Crop for Modern Times. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International, Wallingford, UK (in press).

Waliyar F, Kumar PL, Ntare BR, Traore A and Kodio A. 2006. Pre- and post-harvest management of aflatoxin in groundnut. In Mycotoxins: Detection Methods, Management, Public Health and Agricultural Trade (Leslie JF, Bandyopadhyay R, and Visconti A, eds.). CABI Publishing, UK (In press).

 

Books

Kumar PL, Muralidharan K, Suganya S and Waliyar F (eds.). 2006. Management of vector-borne viruses. ICRISAT and Indian Virological Society. 123 pp.

Rao GP, Kumar PL and Pena RJH (eds.). 2006. Characterization, Diagnosis and Management of Plant Viruses. Volume 3: Vegetable and Pulse Crops. Studium Press LLS, Texas, USA. ISBN# 1-933699-33-7.

Varshney RK and Koebner RMD. 2006. Model Plants and Crop Improvement. CRC Press Inc, Florida, USA. 336 pp.