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 …

Iron and zinc at a cross-road: a trade-off between micronutrients and anti-nutritional factors in pearl millet flour for enhancing the bioavailability

RR Kumar, SP Singh, GK Rai, V Krishnan… - Journal of Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
Worldwide, millets are regarded as a nutri-grain; however, they are the least exploited. Pearl
millet grain is abundant in health-beneficial nutrients, making it suitable as food and feed; …

Stage specific comparative transcriptomic analysis to reveal gene networks regulating iron and zinc content in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.]

CT Satyavathi, RS Tomar, S Ambawat, J Kheni… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Pearl millet is an important staple food crop of poor people and excels all other cereals due
to its unique features of resilience to adverse climatic conditions. It is rich in micronutrients …

Genetic variation and diversity for grain iron, zinc, protein and agronomic traits in advanced breeding lines of pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] for …

M Pujar, M Govindaraj, S Gangaprasad… - Genetic Resources and …, 2020 - Springer
Genetic improvements of iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) content in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum
(L.) R. Br.] may reduce the problems of anemia and stunted growth among millet dependent …

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 …

Exploring the genetic variability and diversity of pearl millet core collection germplasm for grain nutritional traits improvement

M Govindaraj, KN Rai, A Kanatti, HD Upadhyaya… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Improving essential nutrient content in staple food crops through biofortification breeding
can overcome the micronutrient malnutrition problem. Genetic improvement depends on the …

Morpho-biochemical characterization and molecular marker based genetic diversity of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.)

DF Gunguniya, S Kumar, MP Patel, AA Sakure, R Patel… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Pearl millet is a key food for millions living in semi-arid and arid regions and is a main diet
for poorer populations. The genetic diversity existing in the pearl millet germplasm can be …

Genotype by environment interaction effect on grain iron and zinc concentration of Indian and mediterranean lentil genotypes

S Gupta, S Das, HK Dikshit, GP Mishra, MS Aski… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lentil grains with high nutritional value qualify as a promising candidate for alleviation of
micronutrient malnutrition in South Asia and North Africa. Genetic variation for micronutrient …

Genotype× environment interaction and genetic association of grain iron and zinc content with other agronomic traits in RIL population of pearl millet

T Singhal, CT Satyavathi, A Kumar… - Crop and Pasture …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Biofortification of lines of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) with increased iron
(Fe) and zinc (Zn) will have great impact because pearl millet is an indispensable …

Evaluation and identification of stable chickpea lines for yield-contributing traits from an association mapping panel

PW Shimray, C Bharadwaj, BS Patil, SM Sankar… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
An association mapping panel consisting of 380 genotypes of chickpea was evaluated for
three different years, including 2014–2015, 2015–2016 and 2016–2017, for yield …