In pearl millet, even a core collection consisting of 2,094 accessions (10% of total accessions) is large and becomes unwieldy to evaluate and characterize the accessions for economic traits. Hence, a mini core collection of pearl millet, comprising 238 accessions click here to search the data for List of accessions (about 10% of core collection or 1% of entire collection) was constituted by evaluating the core collection of 2,094 accessions for 18 morph agronomic traits. Results indicated that almost the entire genetic variation and a majority of co-adapted gene complexes present in the core subset are preserved in the mini core subset. Due to its greatly reduced size, the mini core subset will provide a more economical starting point for proper exploitation of pearl millet genetic resources for crop improvement.

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