Foreword xi 1 Global Production, Status, and Utilization Pattern of Pearl Millet 1 C. Tara Satyavathi, Supriya Ambawat, Nepolean Thirunavukkarasu, Vikas Khandelwal, Sanjana Reddy, and Anuradha Narala 2 Pearl Millet Germplasm Resources 23 M. Vetriventhan, O. P. Yadav, Rakesh K. Srivastava, Sushil Pandey, and Kuldeep Singh 3 Pearl Millet Genetic Improvement for Food and Nutrition Security 53 Mahalingam Govindaraj and Mahesh Pujar 4 Genetic and Genomic Approaches for Accelerated Pearl Millet Breeding 81 Srikanth Bollam, Mahesh Mahendrakar, Sandeep Marla, Vinutha Kanuganahalli, Krishnam Raju Addanki, and Rakesh K. Srivastava 5 Germplasm Utilization and Pre-breeding in Pearl Millet 121 P. Sanjana Reddy 6 Pearl Millet Hybrid Development and Seed Production 165 O.
P. Yadav, S. K. Gupta, R. S. Mahala, Ajay P. Ramalingam, Sabreena A. Parray, and Ramasamy Perumal 7 Challenges and Opportunities of Pearl Millet Hybrid Development and Seed Production in West Africa 207 Prakash I.
Gangashetty, Drabo Inoussa, Ghislain Kanfany, P. Rakshith, Mohammed Riyazaddin, Omar Diack, Desalegn D. Serba, and Ramasamy Perumal 8 Growth and Development of Pearl Millet 225 Maduraimuthu Djanaguiraman, Parvaze A. Sofi, Arun K. Shanker, Ignacio A. Ciampitti, Ramasamy Perumal, and P. V. Vara Prasad 9 Impact of Drought and High-temperature Stresses on Growth and Development Stages, Physiological, Reproductive, and Yield Traits on Pearl Millet 249 Maduraimuthu Djanaguiraman, A.
S. Priyanka, S. J. Vaishnavi, Ramasamy Perumal, Ignacio A. Ciampitti, and P. V. Vara Prasad 10 Weed Management in Pearl Millet: Challenges and Opportunities 277 Vipan Kumar, Midhat Zulafkar Tugoo, Prashant Jha, Antonio DiTommaso, and Kassim Al-Khatib 11 Diseases of Pearl Millet 299 Christopher R. Little, Ramasamy Perumal, and Timothy C.
Todd 12 Pearl Millet: Pest Management 393 Rajkumar P. Juneja, Jagdish Jaba, Riyazaddin Mohammed, and Rajan Sharma 13 Pearl Millet Biomass for Fodder in West Africa Region 417 Talla Lo, Aliou Faye, Mamadou T. Diaw, Abdoulaye Dieng, Doohong Min, Augustine Obour, Ramasamy Parumal and P. V. Vara Prasad 14 Pearl Millet: Marketing and Innovation Hubs 445 B. Dayakar Rao, Veeresh S. Wali, Shreeja Kulla, and C. Tara Satyavathi 15 Pearl Millet: Processing and Value Addition for Gluten-free Markets 485 Shivaprasad Doddabematti Prakash, Manoj Kumar Pulivarthi, and Kaliramesh Siliveru.