Journal Articles
Book Chapters
Conference Papers
Miscellaneous

 

Journal Articles

Azhaguvel P, CT Hash, P Rangasamy and A Sharma. 2003. Mapping the d 1 and d 2 dwarfing genes and purple foliage color locus P in pearl millet. The Journal of Heredity 94: 155 – 159.

Bhattacharjee R, Kumar PL, Kolesnikova-Allen M, Chhabra AK. 2003. Plant biotechnology towards food security. In Enhancing Production and Food Value of Plants: Genetic Options Vol. 1 (eds. Behl and Chhabra, A. K.) pp1-11. CSK, HPKV, Palampur, India.

Bidinger FR, Thakur RP, Yadav OP and Sharma MM. 2003. Male-sterile seed parents for breeding of land race-based topcross hybrids of pearl millet [ Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] for the arid zone II. Downy mildew resistance, terminal drought tolerance and potential productivity. Indian J. Genet. 63: 99-105.

Bidinger FR, Thakur RP, Yadav OP and Sharma MM. 2003. Male-sterile seed parents for breeding landrace-based topcross hybrids of pearl millet for the arid zone. II. Downy mildew resistance, plant type, fertility restoration and terminal drought tolerance. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 63: 99-105. (GTCI)

Bidinger FR, Yadav OP, Sharma MM, van Oosterom EJ and Yadav YP. 2003. Exploitation of heterosis for simultaneous improvement in both grain and stover yields of arid zone pearl millet. Field Crops Research 83:13 -26.

Blümmel M, E Zerbini, BVS Reddy, CT Hash, F Bidinger, and A Khan. 2003b. Improving the production and utilization of sorghum and pearl millet as livestock feed: progress towards dual-purpose genotypes. Field Crops Research 84: 143 – 158.

Blümmel M, E Zerbini, BVS Reddy, CT Hash, F Bidinger and R Devulapalli. 2003a. Improving the production and utilization of sorghum and pearl millet as livestock feed: methodological problems and possible solutions. Field Crops Research 84: 123 – 142.

Blummel M, Zerbini E, Reddy BVS, Hash CT, Bidinger F and Khan AA. 2003. Improving the production and utilization of sorghum and pearl millet as livestock feed: progress towards dual-purpose genotypes. Field Crops Research 84: 143-158

Chandra S, Nigam SN, Cruickshank AW, Bandyopadhyaya A, Harikrishna S. 2003. Selection index for identifying high-yielding genotypes in irrigated and rainfed environments . Ann Appl Biol 143:303-310

Dayal S, Lavanya M, Devi P and Sharma KK. 2003. An efficient protocol for shoot regeneration and genetic transformation of pigeonpea [ Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] by using leaf explants. Plant Cell Reports, 21: 1072-1079.

Gargav S and Gaur PM. 2003. Phenological and morphological variations in wild Cicer species in comparison to the cultigen. Legume Research 26:95-99

Gaur PM and Gour VK. 2003. Broad-few-leaflets and outwardly curved wings: two new mutants of chickpea. Plant Breeding 122: 192-194.

Gopalaswamy SVS, Subaratnam GV and Sharma HC. 2003. Development of resistance to insects in transgenic plants with Bacillus thuringiensis genes: Current status and management strategies. Resistant Pest Management Newsletter . http://whalonlab.msu.edu/rpmnews/vol.12_no.2/rpm . 17 pp.

Hash CT, AG Bhasker Raj, S Lindup, A Sharma, CR Beniwal, RT Folkertsma, V Mahalakshmi, E Zerbini and M Blümmel. 2003. Opportunities for marker-assisted selection (MAS) to improve the feed quality of crop residues in pearl millet and sorghum. Field Crops Research 84: 79 – 88.

Idnani N and Gaur PM. 2003. Linkage m apping of two mutant loci controlling leaf necrosis and glabrous shoot in chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.). Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 63: 45-48.

Jayanand B, Sudarsanam G and Sharma KK. 2003. An efficient protocol for the regeneration of whole plants of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) by using axillary meristem explants derived from in vitro germinated seedlings. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant, 39: 171-179.

Kulkarni NK, Kumar PL, Muniyappa V, Jones AT and Reddy DVR. 2003. Studies on host range of Pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus. Journal of Mycology and Plant Pathology 33:141-145.

Kulkarni NK, Reddy AS, Kumar PL, Vijaynarasimha J, Rangaswamy KT, Reddy LJ, Saxena KB, Jones AT and Reddy DVR. 2003. Broad-based resistance to Pigeonpea sterility mosaic disease in the accessions of Cajanus scarabaeoides . Indian Journal of Plant Protection 31: 6-11.

Kumar PL, Jones AT and Reddy DVR. 2003. A novel mite-transmitted virus with a divided RNA genome closely associated with pigeonpea sterility mosaic disease. Phytopathology 93: 81-91.

Mallikarjuna N, Kranthi KR, Jadhav DR, Kranthi S, Chandra S. 2003. Influence of foliar chemical compounds on the development of Spodeptera litura (Fab.) in interspecific derivatives of groundnut. J Applied Entomology 128:321-328

Manoj Kumar S, Syamala D, Sharma KK and Devi P. 2003. Protocol for efficient plant regeneration and Agrobacterium tumefaciens -mediated genetic transformation of pigeonpea [ Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]. Indian Journal of Genetics, 63: 289-294.

Nepolean T, CT Hash, S Chandra, F Bidinger. 2003. Accounting for spatial variation provides realistic QTL mapping results: Pearl millet as an example . Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Nepolean T, CT Hash, RS Yadav , S Chandra, F Bidinger. 2003. Identification and characterization of QTLs and QTL ´ environment interactions of traits contributing to yield in irrigated and terminal drought stress environments Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Nepolean T, CT Hash, RS Yadav , S Chandra, F Bidinger. 2003. Comparison of alternative strategies for using fixed resources for identification of QTL for drought tolerance. Molecular Breeding/ Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Nepolean T, Hash CT, Pittaway TS, Fazlullah Khan AK and Subbaraman N. 2003. Pleiotropic effects of the d 2 dwarfing gene on grain yield in pearl millet - QTL evidence. Journal of Plant Breeding

Serraj R. 2003. Atmospheric CO2 increase benefits symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes under drought. Current Science 85 (9): 1341-1343.

Serraj R. 2003. Effects of drought stress on legume symbiotic nitrogen fixation: Physiological mechanisms. Ind. J. Exp. Biol. 41: 1136-1141.

Serraj R and Sinclair TR. 2003. Evidence that carbon dioxide enrichment alleviates ureide-induced decline of nodule nitrogenase activity. Annals of Botany 91(1): 85-89

Sharma HC, Gowda CLL, Sharma KK, Gaur PM, Mallikarjuna N, Buhariwalla HK and crouch JH. 2003. Host plant resistance to pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera in chickpea. In: Chickpea Research for the Millennium; Proceedings, International Chickpea Conference, 20-23 January 2003. Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, Chattisgarh, India, pp. 118-137.

Sharma HC, Pampapathy G and Reddy LJ. 2003. Wild relatives of pigeonpea as a source of resistance to the pod fly ( Melanagromyza obtusa Malloch) and pod wasp ( Tenaostigmodes cajaninae La Salle). Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 50: 817-824

Sharma HC, Pampapathy G, Dwivedi SL and Reddy LJ. 2003. Mechanisms and diversity of resistance to insect pests in wild relatives of groundnut . Journal of Economic Entomology 96: 1886-1897

Sharma HC, Sharma KK, Seetharama N and Crouch JH. 2003. The utility and management of transgenic plants with Bacillus thuringiensis genes for protection from pests. New Seeds Journal 5: 53-76.

Sharma HC, Venkateswarulu G and Sharma A. 2003. Environmental factors influence the expression of resistance to sorghum midge, Stenodiplosis sorghicola . Euphytica 130: 365-375.

Singh SD, Girish AG, Kameswar Rao N, Bramel PJ, Chandra S. 2003. Survival of Rhizoctonia bataticola in groundnut seed under different storage conditions. Seed Science and Technology 31:169-175

Sivaramakrishnan S, Thakur RP Seetha Kannan and Rao VP. 2003. Pathogenic and genetic diversity among Sclerospora graminicola isolates from pearl millet. Indian Phytopathology 56:486-491.

Sonia, Singh RP, Sharma KK and Jaiwal PK. 2003. In vitro regeneration and genetic transformation of chickpea. In: Applied Genetics of Leguminosae Botechnology (P.K. Jaiwal and R.P. Singh, eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 69-87.

Thakur RP, Rao VP, Amruthesh KN, Shetty HS and Datar VV. 2003. Field Surveys of Pearl Millet Downy Mildew - Effects of Hybrids, Fungicide, and Cropping Sequence. Journal of Mycology and Plant Pathology 33:387-394.

Thakur RP, Rao VP, Upadhyaya HD, Nigam SN and Talwar HS. 2003. Improved screening techniques for invtro seed colonization and preharvest seed infection by Aspergillus flavus in groundnut. Indian J. of Plant Protection. 31:54-60

Van Oosterom EJ, Bidinger FR and Weltzien RE. 2003. A yield architecture framework to explain adaptation of pearl millet to environmental stress. Field Crops Research 80:33-56.

Yadav OP, Bidinger FR, and Sharma MM. 2003. Male-sterile seed parents for breeding landrace-based topcross hybrids of pearl millet for the arid zone. III. Matching A-lines and specific target environments Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 63:106-114.

Yadav RS, FR Bidinger, CT Hash, YP Yadav, SK Bhatnagar and CJ Howarth. 2003. Mapping and characterization of QTL×E interactions of grain and stover yield determining traits in pearl millet. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 106: 512-520.

Yadav OP, Weltzien RE and Bidinger FR. 2003. Genetic variation in drought response of landraces of pearl millet. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 63:37-40

 

Book Chapters

Bidinger FR and Hash CT. 2003. Pearl Millet. pp. 225 – 270 in Nguyen, H. T., and Blum, A . (eds) Physiology and Biotechnology Integration in Plant Breeding. New York: Marcel Dekker.

Gowda CLL, Gaur PM. and Saxena KB. 2003. International research and development activities on chickpea and pigeonpea. Pages 17-25 in Souvenir: National Symposium on Pulses for Crop Diversification and Natural Resource Management, Kanpur, India: Indian Institute of Pulses Research.

Nalini Mallikarjuna. 2003. Wide hybridization in important food legumes. In: P.K. Jaiwal and R.P. Singh (Eds.) Biotechnology for the Improvement of Legumes. Kluwer Acad. Publishers.

Serraj R. 2003. Physiological response of legume symbiotic nitrogen fixation to drought and salinity stresses. In: Improvement Strategies of Leguminosae Biotechnology, Pawan K. Jaiwal & Rana P. Singh (Eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Sharma HC, Taneja SL, Kameshwara Rao N and Prasada Rao KE. 2003. Evaluation of Sorghum Germplasm for Resistance to Insect Pests. Information Bulletin no. 63. Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). 184 pp.

 

Conference Papers

Bidinger FR and Hash CT. 2003.Pearl Millet. pp. 225 – 270 in Nguyen, H. T., and Blum, A. (eds) Physiology and Biotechnology Integration in Plant Breeding. New York: Marcel Dekker.

Gowda CLL, Gaur PMand Saxena KB. 2003.International research and development activities on chickpea and pigeonpea. Pages 17-25 in Souvenir: National Symposium on Pulses for Crop Diversification and Natural Resource Management, Kanpur, India: Indian Institute of Pulses Research.

Nalini Mallikarjuna. 2003.Wide hybridization in important food legumes. In: P.K. Jaiwal and R.P. Singh (Eds.) Biotechnology for the Improvement of Legumes. Kluwer Acad. Publishers.

Serraj R. 2003. Physiological response of legume symbiotic nitrogen fixation to drought and salinity stresses. In: Improvement Strategies of Leguminosae Biotechnology, Pawan K. Jaiwal & Rana P. Singh (Eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Sharma HC, Taneja SL, Kameshwara Rao N and Prasada Rao KE. 2003Evaluation of Sorghum Germplasm for Resistance to Insect Pests. Information Bulletin no. 63. Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). 184 pp.

Krishnamurthy L, Kashiwagi J, Upadhyaya HD and Serraj R. 2003. Genetic Diversity of Drought-avoidance Root Traits in the Mini-core Germplasm Collection of Chickpea. Int. Chickpea Pigeonpea Newsletter 10:21-24

 

Miscellaneous

Dwivedi SL, Gurtu S, Chandra S, Upadhyaya HD and Nigam SN . 2003. AFLP Diversity among selected rosette resistant groundnut germplasm. Int. Arachis Newletter. 23:21-23.