Description:
Genetic Type NM-IO is a genetic male sterile F5 line of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L) R. and Br.), Reg. no. GS-xx, PI xxxxxx, derived from a cross between a single male sterile plant found in line 34 -2B, and68B. The male sterile plant was found in the Fs maintainer parent 34-2B in an isolation plot for the seed increase of cytoplasmic male sterile seed parent 34-2A4. The male sterility is maintained as a heterozygote (NM-IOH)