Crops that feed the world 11. Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.): an important source of food security, nutrition and health in the arid and semi-arid tropics
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Genetic enhancement of pearl millet and sorghum for the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa
628 Abstract: Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.), ranking fifth and sixth in global cereal hectarage, respectively, are the most important coarse-grain cereals in the semi-arid tropical regions of Asia and Africa. Pearl millet displays better adaptation to and is grown in relatively more marginal environments than sorghum. Under subsistence f...
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From the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside. Dr. Gepts is now at the Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis. This work was supported by NSF grant BSR-8500206. The authors thank Wayne Hanna for providing seed samples and for assistance in complying with quarantine regulations. They also thank J. Dujardin, A. Marchais, a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Food Security
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1876-4517,1876-4525
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-016-0557-y