Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263 145, India
* Department of Agriculture Botany and Plant Breeding, Nagaland University, SASRD, MEDZIPHEMA, Nagaland.
Job's tear is a multipurpose crop of the hills. Being a crosspollinated plant, there is a sound scope of development of hybrid and composites in the crop. Coix may fit well in uncultivated and marginal lands in the hills. Botany, thrust area of research and prospects have been highlighted here in light of importance as a emerging crop of the hills.
