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 …

▪ Abstract Although the loss of green color in senescent leaves and ripening fruits is a
spectacular natural phenomenon, research on chlorophyll breakdown has been largely …

Pearl millet [Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone] is a staple food for more than 90 million
farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa, India and South Asia. We report …

The progress made in DNA marker technology has been tremendous and exciting. DNA
markers have provided valuable tools in various analyses ranging from phylogenetic …

Chromosomal regions associated with marker segregation distortion in rice were compared
based on six molecular linkage maps. Mapping populations were derived from one …

Using cereal crops as examples, we review the breeding for tolerance to the abiotic stresses
of low nitrogen, drought, salinity and aluminium toxicity. All are already important abiotic …

Sustainable crop production is the major challenge in the current global climate change
scenario. Drought stress is one of the most critical abiotic factors which negatively impact …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Nutritional Quality and Food, Feed,
Medicinal, and Other Uses Domestication, Phylogenetic, and Genomic Relationships …

Improved food security, led by increased productivity among Africa's many small-scale
farmers, has been the aim of significant national and international effort in recent decades. It …