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Heterosis breeding in safflower : Present status and future prospects under Indian scenario

author(s) Meena - H.P - Dudhe - M.Y - Mukta - N - Anjani - K
from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
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Meena, H.P., Dudhe, M.Y., Mukta, N. and Anjani, K. 2012. Heterosis breeding in safflower : Present status and future prospects under Indian scenario. Journal of Oilseeds Research, 29 (Spl. Issue): 164-167

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Abstract

Development of agronomically superior genetic male-sterile lines in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) in India resulted in the development and release of spiny safflower hybrids DSH-129 and MKH-II in 1997 and NARIH-15 in 2005 followed by the first nonspiny hybrid safflower NARI-NH-l in 2001. These hybrids in general exhibited an increase of 20 to 25% in seed and oil yield over the national check A-I. Recently in the year 2006, a cytoplasmic-genetic male sterility (CMS) based hybrid MRSA-521, bred by a private seed company

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