Pearl millet: a climate-resilient nutricereal for mitigating hidden hunger and provide nutritional security

CT Satyavathi, S Ambawat, V Khandelwal… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is the sixth most important cereal crop after rice,
wheat, maize, barley and sorghum. It is widely grown on 30 million ha in the arid and semi …

Redesigning crop varieties to win the race between climate change and food security

KV Pixley, JE Cairns, S Lopez-Ridaura, CO Ojiewo… - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Climate change poses daunting challenges to agricultural production and food security.
Rising temperatures, shifting weather patterns, and more frequent extreme events have …

Genetic gains in pearl millet in India: insights into historic breeding strategies and future perspective

OP Yadav, SK Gupta, M Govindaraj… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum R. Br.) is an important staple and nutritious food crop in
the semiarid and arid ecologies of South Asia (SA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In view of …

Health risk implications of iron in wastewater soil-food crops grown in the vicinity of peri urban areas of the District Sargodha

S Akhtar, M Luqman, MU Farooq Awan, I Saba… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Irrigation using sewage water can be beneficial, as it can increase the productivity of crops
but has negative consequences on crops, soil contamination, and human health. It contains …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative strategies for multi-stress tolerance and yield improvement in millets

M Numan, DD Serba, A Ligaba-Osena - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Millets are important cereal crops cultivated in arid and semiarid regions of the world,
particularly Africa and southeast Asia. Climate change has triggered multiple abiotic …

Transition From Wild to Domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Revealed in Ceramic Temper at Three Middle Holocene Sites in Northern Mali

DQ Fuller, A Barron, L Champion, C Dupuy… - African Archaeological …, 2021 - Springer
Imprints of domesticated pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) spikelets, observed as
temper in ceramics dating to the third millennium BC, provide the earliest evidence for the …

Millet's role as a climate resilient staple for future food security: a review

D Raut, B Sudeepthi, KN Gawande… - International …, 2023 - article.researchpromo.com
This review comprehensively examines the role of millets as a sustainable and resilient food
source in the context of global climate change and escalating food security challenges …

Genetic insights in pearl millet breeding in the genomic era: challenges and prospects

M Singh, U Nara - Plant Biotechnology Reports, 2023 - Springer
Pearl millet, a vital staple food and an important cereal, is emerging as crop having various
end-uses as feed, food as well as fodder. Advancement in high-throughput sequencing …

Variety and management selection to optimize pearl millet yield and profit in Senegal

LM Bastos, A Faye, ZP Stewart, TM Akplo, D Min… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum R. Br.) water-limited yield gap in Senegal is estimated at
2.2 Mg ha-1. Proper variety and management selection are critical to the sustainable …

Variation in the nutrient content of different genotypes and varieties of millets, studied globally: a systematic review

S Anitha, A Rajendran, R Botha, C Baruah… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This study was conducted to understand the variation in the nutrient contents of different
types of millets by collecting data from published scientific journals and collating it by variety …