“…Marker-trait association (MTA) studies in finger millet have been undertaken using whole genome SNP markers from different skim- sequencing techniques. Through GWAS, SNP markers associated with flowering days (Sharma et al, 2018;Sood, Joshi, Rajashekara, et al, 2023), grain yield (Sharma et al, 2018;Sood, Joshi, Rajashekara, et al, 2023;Tiwari et al, 2020), neck blast (Sood, Joshi, Rajashekara, et al, 2023), micronutrient (Chandra et al, 2024;Puranik et al, 2020;Sharma et al, 2022) and protein contents (Tiwari et al, 2020) were reported. Studies at the University of Georgia have characterized a bi-parental interspecific population (MD-20 Â Okhale 1) (Qi et al, 2018) to map for days to flowering, plant height, panicle number per plant and blast disease resistance (Pendergast et al, 2022), and colouration of stigma and anthers (Devos et al, 2023).…”