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 …

Crop biofortification for iron (Fe), zinc (Zn) and vitamin A with transgenic approaches

S Kumar, A Palve, C Joshi, RK Srivastava - Heliyon, 2019 - cell.com
Micronutrient malnutrition is an important issue in the develo** countries especially in
Asia and Africa where millions of school-going children and pregnant women are affected …

Genome-wide association studies and genomic selection in pearl millet: Advances and prospects

RK Srivastava, RB Singh, VL Pujarula, S Bollam… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Pearl millet is a climate-resilient, drought-tolerant crop capable of growing in marginal
environments of arid and semi-arid regions globally. Pearl millet is a staple food for more …

Genetic basis and breeding perspectives of grain iron and zinc enrichment in cereals

AL Garcia-Oliveira, S Chander, R Ortiz… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Micronutrient deficiency, also known as “hidden hunger,” is an increasingly serious global
challenge to humankind. Among the mineral elements, Fe (Iron) and Zn (Zinc) have earned …

[HTML][HTML] Breeding biofortified pearl millet varieties and hybrids to enhance millet markets for human nutrition

M Govindaraj, KN Rai, B Cherian, WH Pfeiffer… - Agriculture, 2019 - mdpi.com
Pearl millet is an important food crop in the arid and semi-arid tropical regions of Africa and
Asia. Iron and zinc deficiencies are widespread and serious public health problems …

Transition from targeted breeding to mainstreaming of biofortification traits in crop improvement programs

PS Virk, MS Andersson, J Arcos… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biofortification breeding for three important micronutrients for human health, namely, iron
(Fe), zinc (Zn), and provitamin A (PVA), has gained momentum in recent years. HarvestPlus …

Breeding drought-tolerant pearl millet using conventional and genomic approaches: achievements and prospects

RK Srivastava, OP Yadav, S Kaliamoorthy… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a C4 crop cultivated for its grain and stover in
crop-livestock-based rain-fed farming systems of tropics and subtropics in the Indian …