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The genomics of t'ef and finger millet domestication and spread. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciThe Northern Highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea (NHE) were a centre for food production in Africa, hosting one of the earliest agriculture-based complex societies on the continent. The NHE’s geographical connections with the Arabian Peninsula, and Nilotic cultures led to the cultivation of southwest Asian crops and African native ...
Mekonnen DZ +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Finger millet plays a vital role in the food and nutritional security of many people in developing countries particularly in Asia and Africa. It is a staple food for poor people in many regions of Asian (India, China, Nepal, and Sri Lanka etc.) and ...
Theivanayagam Maharajan +3 more
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A simple seed-piercing transformation protocol for pearl millet and finger millet. [PDF]
AoB PlantsAbstract Pearl millet and finger millet face challenges in adopting transgenic or editing approaches due to their inherent recalcitrance to genetic transformation protocols. To overcome these limitations, the current study aims to streamline the genetic transformation protocol for pearl millet and finger millet.
Moin M, Tyagi W, Sreevarshitha G.
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Food Technology and Biotechnology, 2020 Research background. Diabetes is a chronic multi-system disease having long term consequences to the health of people suffering from it. This study investigates the role of finger millet (Eleusine coracana)-enriched probiotic fermented milk in ...
Jinal Kesharbhai Chaudhary +1 more
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Heliyon, 2022 This study was conducted to evaluate the straw dry matter yield and quality of finger millet intercropped with three species of vetch (Vicia sativa, Vicia villosa and Vicia atropurpurea) at different seeding ratios in western Oromia, Ethiopia.
Wakgari Keba +2 more
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Decoding of Finger Millet Genome: A Milestone of Millet Genomics [PDF]
Signal Transduction Insights, 2019 Whole genome sequencing is an important milestone of the genomics-assisted molecular biology studies. Sequencing the whole genome of plants unravels the complex molecular structure of these complex organisms. In this respect, whole genome sequencing of important small millet that is finger millet was subsequently released by 2 independent groups. This
Subramani Pandian, Manikandan Ramesh
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Salinity stress is a major environmental impediment affecting the growth and production of crops. Finger millet is an important cereal grown in many arid and semi-arid areas of the world characterized by erratic rainfall and scarcity of good-quality ...
Wilton Mbinda +2 more
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Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU, 2019 BACKGROUND: Millets are a group of variable small seeded grass, widely grown around the world as cereals crop. The finger millet had more moisture and calcium content. Whereas, fat content was least when compared to three other different millets. Foxtail
K N Shankaramurthy +1 more
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CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2021 Background Finger millet blast disease, caused by Pyricularia oryzae, is a serious constrain of finger millet production which is threatening global food security especially to the resource poor smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid regions.
Wilton Mbinda +6 more
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Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2019 Sustainable intensification of agriculture is a means of reducing the demand for increased land resources. A field experiment was conducted at two major finer millet producing areas of northwestern Ethiopia from 2017 to 2018 cropping seasons with the ...
Yayeh Bitew +3 more
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