Nowadays, the most significant consequence of climate change is drought stress. Drought is
one of the important, alarming, and hazardous abiotic stresses responsible for the …

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 …

Background Sesame is an important oil crop due to its high oil, antioxidant, and protein
content. Drought stress is a major abiotic stress that affects sesame production as well as the …

Background Plants have developed various sophisticated mechanisms to cope up with
climate extremes and different stress conditions, especially by involving specific transcription …

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 …

The C4 grass pearl millet is one of the most drought tolerant cereals and is primarily grown
in marginal areas where annual rainfall is low and intermittent. It was domesticated in sub …

Abstract Background Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is a cereal crop that possesses the
ability to withstand drought, salinity and high temperature stresses. The NAC [NAM (No …

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 …

Abstract 'Small millets' is a generic term that includes all the millets except pearl millet and
sorghum. These small or minor millets constitute eleven species that are marginally …

Water deficit stress at the early stage of development is one of the main factors limiting pearl
millet production. One practice to counteract this limitation would be to resort to the …