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Regeneration guidelines: pearl millet

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Title Regeneration guidelines: pearl millet
 
Creator Upadhyaya, H D
Reddy, K N
Sastry, D V S S R
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.), also
known as bulrush or cattail millet, is an important
grain and forage crop in Africa and South Asia
and a forage crop in the Americas. It is mostly
grown under hot, dry conditions on infertile soils
of low water-holding capacity, where other crops
generally fail. Pearl millet belongs to the family
Poaceae, subfamily Panicoideae, tribe Paniceae,
subtribe Panicinae, section Penicillaria and genus
Pennisetum. The genus Pennisetum contains about 140 species. The important wild relatives
of cultivated pearl millet include the progenitor, Pennisetum glaucum subsp. monodii Maire;
P.purpureum K. Schumach.; P. pedicellatum Trin.; P. orientale Rich.; P. mezianum Leeke; and
P. squamulatum Fresen.................
 
Publisher CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resource Programme
 
Date 2008
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4040/1/Regeneration_guidelines__Pearl_millet_2008.pdf
Upadhyaya, H D and Reddy, K N and Sastry, D V S S R (2008) Regeneration guidelines: pearl millet. In: Crop specific regeneration guidelines [CD-ROM]. CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resource Programme, Rome, Italy, pp. 1-9.