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Genotyping of composite collection of finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn)

Abstract

Finger millet germplasm pool remains largely uncharacterised, thus a constraint to finding genetically diverse germplasm with beneficial traits for use in breeding programmes. A composite collection of 1000 accessions, which also consists of 622 core collection accessions (Upadhyaya et al. 2006), has been developed and molecularly profiled using 20 SSRs (Dida et al. 2007) in high throughput assay (ABI3700)