Selected seed companies and young potential seed producers have undergone training on the production of improved pearl millet seed as part of efforts to make the seeds available to farmers. The ...

Pearl millet, an annual grass used for grain and forage, can be a good food source for honey bees and hover flies, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Entomological Science. The ...

Recently, plant geneticists have successfully isolated the gene that creates dwarfed varieties of pearl millet. It is the first time a gene controlling an important agronomic trait has been isolated ...

Alta Seeds, the premium seed brand of Advanta, announces the addition of two new grain sorghum hybrids and the debut of a hybrid pearl millet for the 2015 planting season. AG1101 - an early maturity ...

Small-holder farming systems have long been recognized as crop genetic resource diversity hot spots, where crop evolution and varietal innovations have regularly occurred since the beginning of ...

Athens, Ga. – While pearl millet is a major food staple in some of the fastest growing regions on Earth, relatively little is known about the drought-hardy grain. Recently, plant geneticists at the ...

Researchers have identified a large number of structural variations in the genomes of pearl millet, a crop that grows in arid and semi-arid regions 1. The variations affect the expression of specific ...

Heat and water deficit stresses tend to impede and restrict the efficiency of photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence and maximum photochemical quantum yield in plants based on their characteristic ...

Michael Major is a science communicator at Crop Trust and works to disseminate information regarding the Genebank Platform, Crop Wild Relatives and Genesys. It can get stinking hot in Agra, in India’s ...

Plant morphological characters have been the universally undisputed descriptors applied for testing distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of crop varieties. However, these descriptors, other ...