%0 Journal Article
%A Gale, M D
%A Devos, K M
%A Zhu, J H
%A Allouis, S
%A Couchman, M S
%A Liu, H
%A Pittaway, T S
%A Qi, X Q
%A Kolesnikova-Allen, M
%A Hash, C T
%D 2001
%F icrisat:1841
%J International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter
%P 16-17
%T New molecular marker technologies for pearl millet improvement
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/1841/
%V 42
%X At a time when most of the world still viewed molecular technology as a luxury, for use only with major staple crops, a DFID-JIC-ICRISAT project anticipated as early as 1991 the application of molecular diagnostics in the breeding of orphan crops for developing countries.