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 …

Super-pangenome by integrating the wild side of a species for accelerated crop improvement

AW Khan, V Garg, M Roorkiwal, AA Golicz… - Trends in plant …, 2020 - cell.com
The pangenome provides genomic variations in the cultivated gene pool for a given species.
However, as the crop's gene pool comprises many species, especially wild relatives with …

Pangenomic analysis identifies structural variation associated with heat tolerance in pearl millet

H Yan, M Sun, Z Zhang, Y Jin, A Zhang, C Lin, B Wu… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Pearl millet is an important cereal crop worldwide and shows superior heat tolerance. Here,
we developed a graph-based pan-genome by assembling ten chromosomal genomes with …

Amelioration of salt induced toxicity in pearl millet by seed priming with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs): The oxidative damage, antioxidant enzymes and ions uptake are …

I Khan, MA Raza, SA Awan, GA Shah, M Rizwan… - Plant physiology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abiotic stresses in plants reduce crop growth and productivity. Nanoparticles (NPs) are
effectively involved in the physiochemical processes of crop plants, especially under the …

Resequencing of 429 chickpea accessions from 45 countries provides insights into genome diversity, domestication and agronomic traits

RK Varshney, M Thudi, M Roorkiwal, W He… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report a map of 4.97 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the chickpea from whole-
genome resequencing of 429 lines sampled from 45 countries. We identified 122 candidate …

Genomic resources in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture

M Thudi, R Palakurthi, JC Schnable… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Does climate change affect the yield of the top three cereals and food security in the world?

D Neupane, P Adhikari, D Bhattarai, B Rana, Z Ahmed… - Earth, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate prediction models suggest that agricultural productivity will be significantly affected
in the future. The expected rise in average global temperature due to the higher release of …

Developing naturally stress-resistant crops for a sustainable agriculture

H Zhang, Y Li, JK Zhu - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
A major problem facing humanity is that our numbers are growing but the availability of land
and fresh water for agriculture is not. This problem is being exacerbated by climate change …

[HTML][HTML] 5Gs for crop genetic improvement

RK Varshney, P Sinha, VK Singh, A Kumar… - Current Opinion in Plant …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•5G breeding approach brings precision and enhances efficiency in breeding
programs.•Genome, germplasm, gene function, genomic breeding and genome editing are …

Milletdb: a multi‐omics database to accelerate the research of functional genomics and molecular breeding of millets

M Sun, H Yan, A Zhang, Y Jin, C Lin… - Plant biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Millets are a class of nutrient‐rich coarse cereals with high resistance to abiotic stress; thus,
they guarantee food security for people living in areas with extreme climatic conditions and …