Blast (Pyricularia grisea) is an economically important disease of rice and finger millet in Nepal. Isolates of the fungus from different hosts differed in their response in media for mycelial growth and sporulation. Radial mycelial growth (RMG) and days of sporulation (DOS) of P. grisea were studied by culturing three fungal isolates from rice, finger millet and Panicum sp. on six different me...

Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is well-adapted for the Central Great Plains and could be planted in a winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)-millet-fallow rotation, resulting in two crops in 3 yr. To determine the most suitable tillage system for proso millet production within this rotation, seven tillage management systems were evaluated over a 6-yr period (1972-1977). The research was condu...

Abstract Background Drought is one of the major environmental stresses resulting in a huge reduction crop growth and biomass production. Pearl millet ( Pennisetum glaucum L.) has excellent drought tolerance, it could be used as model plant to study resistance. The root very crucial part that plays important roles development, which makes focus research. Results In this study, we explored mechan...

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) is affected by drought stress, affecting crop productivity and survival. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are reported to play a vital role in the response stress. LncRNAs represent major part of non-protein coding present prevalently. These involved various biological processes, which may functionally act as RNA rather than getting transcribed protein. We tar...

Citation: Niu X, Song L, Xiao Y and Ge W (2018) Drought-Tolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Associated with Foxtail Millet in a Semi-arid Agroecosystem and Their Potential in Alleviating Drought Stress. Front. Microbiol. 8:2580. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02580 Drought-Tolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Associated with Foxtail Millet in a Semi-arid Agroecosystem and Their Pote...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect an early application potassium (K) fertilizer on pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) grown during fall/winter performance maize (Zea mays silage in succession. Using a randomized block design, harvest, plots were composed and six doses K (0, 30, 60, 90, 120 150 kg K2O ha-1) as muriate potash (57% K2O) addition fallow. In summer cultivation...

For the evolution of new pearl millet hybrids with diverse cytoplasmic background suitable for specific areas and condition, there is a need for diversified CMS sources among locally adaptable lines and identification of locally adaptable restorers. The present study was undertaken to screen the male sterile and restorer lines among the crosses of five male sterile lines and thirty inbreds of p...

Crop populations in smallholder farming systems are shaped by the interaction of biological, ecological, and social processes, occurring on different spatiotemporal scales. Understanding these dynamics is fundamental for the conservation of crop genetic resources. In this study, we investigated the processes involved in sorghum and pearl millet diversity dynamics on Mount Kenya. Surveys were co...

Pearl millet [ (L.) R. Br; also (L.) Morrone] is an important crop throughout the world but better genomic resources for this species are needed to facilitate crop improvement. Genome mapping studies are a prerequisite for tagging agronomically important traits. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) markers can be used to build high-density linkage maps, even in species lacking a reference genome. A r...

Article history: Received on: 12/03/2016 Revised on: 26/03/2016 Accepted on: 16/04/2016 Available online: 21/04/2016 Plants combat their pathogens with an array of defense responses. One of the key mechanisms involves products of resistance (R) genes which are responsible for recognition of effector molecules from pathogens and subsequent triggering of defense responses. Resistance gene analogu...