Ramasamy Perumal, PhD, is a Professor of Sorghum and Pearl Millet breeding at Kansas State University, USA. P. V. Vara Prasad, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor, R.O. Kruse Professor of Agriculture and Director of the Feed the Future Sustainable Intensificaiton Innovation Lab at Kansas State University, USA. C. Tara Satyavathi, PhD, is a Director at the Indian Council of Agriculture Research-Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad, India. Mahalingam Govindaraj, PhD, is a Senior Scientist for Crop Development at HarvestPlus and the Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture, India. Abdou Tenkouano, PhD, is the Director General of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Kenya.

• Foreword xi1 Global Production, Status, and Utilization Pattern of Pearl Millet 1C. Tara Satyavathi, Supriya Ambawat, Nepolean Thirunavukkarasu, Vikas Khandelwal, Sanjana Reddy, and Anuradha Narala2 Pearl Millet Germplasm Resources 23M. Vetriventhan, O. P. Yadav, Rakesh K. Srivastava, Sushil Pandey, and Kuldeep Singh3 Pearl Millet Genetic Improvement for Food and Nutrition Security 53Mahalingam Govindaraj and Mahesh Pujar4 Genetic and Genomic Approaches for Accelerated Pearl Millet Breeding 81Srikanth Bollam, Mahesh Mahendrakar, Sandeep Marla, Vinutha Kanuganahalli, Krishnam Raju Addanki, and Rakesh K. Srivastava5 Germplasm Utilization and Pre-breeding in Pearl Millet 121P. Sanjana Reddy6 Pearl Millet Hybrid Development and Seed Production 165O. P. Yadav, S. K. Gupta, R. S. Mahala, Ajay P. Ramalingam, Sabreena A. Parray, and Ramasamy Perumal 7 Challenges and Opportunities of Pearl Millet Hybrid Development and Seed Production in West Africa 207Prakash I. Gangashetty, Drabo Inoussa, Ghislain Kanfany, P. Rakshith, Mohammed Riyazaddin, Omar Diack, Desalegn D. Serba, and Ramasamy Perumal8 Growth and Development of Pearl Millet 225Maduraimuthu Djanaguiraman, Parvaze A. Sofi, Arun K. Shanker, Ignacio A. Ciampitti, Ramasamy Perumal, and P. V. Vara Prasad9 Impact of Drought and High-temperature Stresses on Growth and Development Stages, Physiological, Reproductive, and Yield Traits on Pearl Millet 249Maduraimuthu Djanaguiraman, A. S. Priyanka, S. J. Vaishnavi, Ramasamy Perumal, Ignacio A. Ciampitti, and P. V. Vara Prasad10 Weed Management in Pearl Millet: Challenges and Opportunities 277Vipan Kumar, Midhat Zulafkar Tugoo, Prashant Jha, Antonio DiTommaso, and Kassim Al-Khatib11 Diseases of Pearl Millet 299Christopher R. Little, Ramasamy Perumal, and Timothy C. Todd12 Pearl Millet: Pest Management 393Rajkumar P. Juneja, Jagdish Jaba, Riyazaddin Mohammed, and Rajan Sharma13 Pearl Millet Biomass for Fodder in West Africa Region 417Talla Lo, Aliou Faye, Mamadou T. Diaw, Abdoulaye Dieng, Doohong Min, Augustine Obour, Ramasamy Parumal and P. V. Vara Prasad14 Pearl Millet: Marketing and Innovation Hubs 445B. Dayakar Rao, Veeresh S. Wali, Shreeja Kulla, and C. Tara Satyavathi15 Pearl Millet: Processing and Value Addition for Gluten-free Markets 485Shivaprasad Doddabematti Prakash, Manoj Kumar Pulivarthi, and Kaliramesh Siliveru