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Finger Millet: A Comprehensive Review

International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine
This review aims to evaluate the nutritional and health benefits of Finger millet, as well as its production and utilization. Finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.), also known as ragi or mandua, is one of the key millets cultivated widely across various regions of India and Africa.
Ashish Kumar Rai, Saroj Adittya Rajesh, Ramachandra Reddy K   +2 more
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Research Progress of Nutritional Ingredients, Functional Properties and Development Utilization of Finger Millet of Finger Millet

Shipin gongye ke-ji
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a medicinal and food homologous cereal that is rich in nutrients. The nutritional ingredients of finger millet mainly include starch, minerals, amino acids, dietary fiber and polyphenols, which have ...
Lulu LI, Jian ZHANG, Lunwei LU, Yanyan YIN, Lingzhuo LI, Ming LIU, Feng HU   +6 more
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Farmer-preferred traits and variety choices for finger millet in Uganda [PDF]

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Finger millet is a climate-resilient crop providing food and nutrition security and income In Uganda. However, the current productivity of finger millet in farmers’ fields is low and among other factors, this is due to the poor adoption of improved ...
Sophia Hamba, Faizo Kasule, Ibrahim Mayanja, Moses Biruma, Hedwig Natabirwa, Losira Nasirumbi Sanya, Deborah Rubin, Martina Occelli, Scovia Adikini   +8 more
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Effect of Legume-Finger Millet Intercropping on Finger Millet Productivity and Soil Organic Carbon Stocks

East African Journal of Agriculture and Biotechnology
The soils in the semi-arid areas of eastern Uganda are mainly ferralsols and plinthosols, characterised by low soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil fertility. On-farm experiments were therefore conducted in Kumi and Amuria districts in the parishes of Olupe and Kuju, respectively, in eastern Uganda.
Godfrey Otim Anyoni, Ivan Abaho, Wilber Wambi, Susan Balaba Tumwebaze, Twaha Ali Basamba Ateenyi, Joseph Ekwangu   +5 more
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Effect of parboiling on cooking characteristics of finger millet and foxtail millet

Agricultural Engineering Today
Experiments on parboiling of finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica) were conducted by soaking at 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70°C and steaming for 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 min. The parboiled millet grains were shade dried and pearled in a laboratory scale pearler-polisher. The cooking characteristics of these parboiled millet grains
null R. Visvanathan, null Patil Sagar Balkrishna   +1 more
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Differences in the nutritional quality of improved finger millet genotypes in Ethiopia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Improved crop genotypes are constantly introduced. However, information on their nutritional quality is generally limited. The present study reports the proximate composition and the concentration and relative bioavailability of minerals of improved ...
Teklu D, Gashu D, Joy EJM, Bailey EH, Wilson L, Amede T, Broadley MR.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Impact of zinc and iron agronomic biofortification on grain mineral concentration of finger millet varieties as affected by location and slope

, 2023
Background: Food crop micronutrient concentrations can be enhanced through agronomic biofortification, with the potential to reduce micronutrient deficiencies among rural population if they have access to fertilizers.
Lark, R Murray, Broadley, Martin R, Broadley, M., Joy, E., Joy, Edward JM, Amede, Tilahun, Bailey, E. H., Gashu, Dawd, Joy, Edward J. M., Wilson, L., Bailey, Elizabeth H., Gashu, D., Lark, R. Murray, Lark, R. M., Amede, T., Teklu, D., Bailey, Elizabeth H, Broadley, Martin R., Wilson, Lolita, Teklu, Demeke   +19 more
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Finger Millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn]: An Orphan Crop With a Potential to Alleviate the Calcium Deficiency in the Semi-arid Tropics of Asia and Africa

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, Stanislaus Antony Ceasar, Thumadath Palayullaparambil Ajeesh Krishna, Savrimuthu Ignacimuthu   +3 more
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The genomics of t'ef and finger millet domestication and spread. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
The 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, Gomes AI, Machado RSR, Oliveira HR.   +3 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

A simple seed-piercing transformation protocol for pearl millet and finger millet. [PDF]

AoB Plants
Abstract 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.
europepmc   +3 more sources