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    pearl millet

    noun

    • 1. a tall tropical cereal with long cylindrical ears, cultivated as a food crop in the driest areas of Africa and South Asia.

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  2. en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pearl_milletPearl millet - Wikipedia

    Pearl millet is a summer annual crop well-suited for double cropping and rotations. The grain and forage are valuable as food and feed resources in Africa, Russia, India and China. Today, pearl millet is grown on over 260,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) of land worldwide. It accounts for about 50% of the total world production of millets.

  3. www.researchgate.net › publication › 5345462_Phylogeny_and_origin_of_Pearl_Millet(PDF) Phylogeny and origin of Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum...

    Jun 1, 2008 · The domestication process in Africa has led to the emergence of important cereal crops like pearl millet in Sahelian Africa. In this study, we used 27 microsatellite loci to analyze 84 wild...

  4. www.sciencedirect.com › topics › agricultural-and-biological-sciencesPearl Millet - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

    Pearl millet originated in western Africa, where the grain developed by natural selection and acquired considerable resistance to a large number of diseases and insects. Pearl millet is the most widely cultivated of all millets and is one of the most drought-tolerant of all domesticated cereals.

  5. academic.oup.com › mbe › articleEvolutionary History of Pearl Millet - Oxford Academic

    Nov 22, 2011 · In this paper, we first document the evolutionary history of pearl millet domestication by studying a set of random genes in wild and cultivated pearl millet populations.

  6. www.millets.res.in › pub › 2018The Story of Millets

    pearl millet (bajra). The finger millet (ragi/mandua), foxtail millet (kangni/Italian millet), little millet (kutki), kodo millet, barnyard millet (sawan/jhangora), proso millet (cheena/common millet), and brown top millet (korale) are categorized under minor millets. In certain countries of Africa, other millets such as fonio and tef are grown.

  7. www.researchgate.net › publication › 372114124_A_Comprehensive_Review_of_Pearl_and(PDF) A Comprehensive Review of Pearl and Small Millets: Taxonomy...

    Jul 4, 2023 · In this review, we have attempted to supply information on millet crops including history and taxonomy, germplasm, world production, economic importance, and breeding approaches, as well as...

  8. link.springer.com › article › 10Phylogeny and origin of pearl millet - Springer

    May 27, 2008 · Our aims were to (1) compare the diversity between wild and cultivated pearl millet samples; (2) identify the hybrid genotypes between wild and cultivated samples; and (3) document the evolutionary history and domestication of pearl millet.

  9. www.nature.com › articles › s41559/018/0643-yA western Sahara centre of domestication inferred from pearl ...

    Aug 6, 2018 · Our results supported an origin in western Sahara, and we dated the onset of cultivated pearl millet expansion in Africa to 4,900 years ago. We provided evidence that wild-to-crop gene flow...

  10. www.frontiersin.org › journals › plant-scienceFrontiers | Pearl Millet: A Climate-Resilient Nutricereal for ...

    Sep 12, 2021 · Jukanti et al. (2016) have reviewed the origin and evolutionary history of pearl millet. It is the sixth major cereal crop in the world followed by maize, rice, wheat, barley and sorghum and cultivated on 30 million ha in the arid and semi-arid tropical regions of Asia and Africa accounting for around half of the global millet production with ...

  11. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articlePearl millet - ScienceDirect

    Jan 1, 2016 · Pearl millet is gaining importance as a climate-resilient and health-promoting nutritious crop. Recent evidences using microsatellites suggest the monophyletic origin of pearl millet and its further migration and secondary diversification leading to enormous diversity.