%D 1994 %L icrisat1491 %T Pearl millet improvement at ICRISAT - an update %P 1-29 %V 35 %N 1 %A K N Rai %A K A Kumar %J International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter %X This paper covers the areas of: (1) production constraints (plant architecture, plant pathogens, drought and stand establishment); (2) genetic resources (status and diversity); (3) genetic improvement (selection in landraces, hybridization and pedigree breeding, recurrent selection, backcross breeding, mutation breeding, cytoplasmic diversification and biotechnology); (4) cultivar development (open-pollinated cultivars, hybrids); and (5) collaboration with national agricultural research systems and networks.