Abstract
Millets are nutricereals that provide essential nourishment to the poor people in the semiarid tropical regions of Africa and Asia and play an important role in ensuring food and nutritional security for those people, their animals, and birds. Production potential of these crops is severely affected due to infection by many fungal and to some extent viral diseases, which must be controlled in an economical way affordable to the farmers. For decades the use of disease-resistant millet cultivars has enabled farmers to manage diseases economically and safely. Many new findings on disease resistance in pearl millet and small millets have appeared during the last two decades. This chapter provides up-to-date information about disease resistance in pearl millet and small millets emphasizing new sources of resistance, screening techniques, mechanisms of resistance, genetics and inheritance of resistance, and utilization of resistance through conventional and molecular methods including DNA markers and transgenic. It also presents a brief account of major pearl millet and small millet diseases including their distribution, importance, biology, epidemiology, and management.
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