Details for: PI 591427, Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone, Tift 85D2A4


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone
Top Name:
Tift 85D2A4
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
07 Aug 1995
Improvement Status:
Genetic material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Highly inbred
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone
Top Name:
Tift 85D2A4
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
07 Aug 1995
Improvement Status:
Genetic material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Highly inbred
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Developed

Georgia, United States

Developer(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Tift 85D2A4
Type: Institute identifier

Narrative
A4 male-sterility inducing cytoplasm produced no male-fertile revertants in a 3 yr. replicated study where 424,000 inflorescences were observed. Since this study, no male fertile revertants have been observed in over 500,000 inflorescences. During the same period, similar numbers of plants in adjacent plots exhibited quantities of fertile revertants similar to those previously observed. The A1 male-sterility inducing cytoplasm is used to produce all commercial pearl millet forage and grain hybrids around the world. The A1 cytoplasm produces male fertile revertants that can contaminate hybrid production fields if not carefully rogued. The A4 cytoplasm makes available a stable, male-sterility inducing cytoplasm for commercial hybrid seed production.
Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone
Genus:
Cenchrus
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paniceae
Subtribe:
Cenchrinae
Nomen number:

464256
Place of publication:

Ann. Bot. (Oxford) ser. 2, 106:127. 2010
Verified:
01/17/2012 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Panicum americanum L.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke
Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke subsp. americanum

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbajra  11961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Englishbulrush millet  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishcattail millet  1Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 10:119-123.
Englishhorse millet  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
EnglishIndian millet  1Tabaeizadeh, Z. et al. 1986. Somatic hybridization in the Gramineae: Saccharum officinarum L. (sugarcane) and Pennisetum americanum (L.) K. Schum. (pearl millet). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83:5616-5619.
Englishpearl millet  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Frenchmil africain  2Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
Frenchmillet à chandelles  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchmillet perle  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanNegerhirse  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
GermanPerlhirse  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
India (Hindi)bajira  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italianmiglio perlato  2International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Portuguesemilheto  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishmijo negro  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishmijo perla  2Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163.
Swedishpärlhirs  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chineseyu gu  2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Annotations
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 11 Feb 2016, from Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. to Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone
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Pedigree
Description:
A4 cytoplasm was transferred from a wild subspecies of pearl millet (Tifton no. PS34) subspecies monodii from Senegal. Tift PS34 was pollinated with Tift 23B and then back-crossed to Tift 23B (as male parent) until the BC9 generation. A cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterile BC9 plant was pollinated with Tift 85D2B1 and then backcrossed to Tift 85D2B1 (as male parent) until the BC5 generation.
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration. GS-1, MILLET, PEARL. Issued: 01 May 1996.
  • Hanna, W. W. 1996. Tift 85D2A4 pearl millet. Crop Sci. (Madison) 36(3):824.