Downy Mildew of Pearl Millet and its Management

Shetty, H S and Raj, S N and Kini, K R and Bishnoi, H R and Sharma, R and Rajpurohit, B S and Mahala, R S and Yadav, H P and Gupta, S K and Yadav, O P (2016) Downy Mildew of Pearl Millet and its Management. All India Coordinated Research Project on Pearl Millet (ICAR), Jodhpur.

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Abstract

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br.) is the third most important rainfed cereal crop of India grown over 9 million hectares with an annual production of 9.5 million tonnes (Yadav and Rai, 2013). Globally, it is the sixth most important cereal grain cultivated on more than 30 million hectares which accounts for approximately 50% of world’s millet production. Though the most of the crop area is in Asia (>10 m ha) and Africa (about 18 m ha), pearl millet cultivation is being expanded in some of the non-traditional areas, with Brazil having the largest area (about 2 m ha). It is also being experimented as a grain and forage crop in the USA, Canada, Mexico, the West Asia and North Africa (WANA), and Central Asia. Pearl millet, being a C4 plant, has a very high photosynthetic efficiency and dry matter production capacity. It is usually grown under the most adverse agro-climatic conditions where other crops like sorghum and maize fail to produce economic yields. Besides, pearl millet has a remarkable ability to respond to favourable environments because of its short developmental stages and capacity for high growth rate, thus making it an excellent crop for short growing seasons under improved crop management...

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	RP-Dryland Cereals
CRP:	CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Downy Mildew, Pearl Millet, Disease, Mildew management
Subjects:	Mandate crops > Millets Mandate crops > Millets > Pearl Millet
Depositing User:	Mr Ramesh K
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2016 06:26
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2016 06:48
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9411
Acknowledgement:	UNSPECIFIED
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