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Effects of finger millet innovations on productivity in Kenya

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2020
Finger millet is an underutilized cereal crop grown in some parts of semi-arid lands in Kenya. Its productivity could be critical in diversifying household nutrition and incomes among resource-constrained farmers in these marginalized areas.
Rebecca Jerop, George Owuor, Patience Mshenga, Paul Kimurto   +3 more
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Past, present and future of local crop evolution

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales, Philippa Ryan, Amy Jackson, Hong Phuong Le, James Borrell, Aaron Davis, Rafal M. Gutaker   +6 more
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A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Crop wild relatives (CWR) in Zimbabwe are reservoirs of beneficial agronomic traits, yet they remain under‐documented and poorly conserved. This study developed Zimbabwe's first national CWR checklist based on a conceptual framework combining floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical data, revealing over 2700 taxa, with nearly 1000 edible species ...
Kudakwashe Mutasa, Onismus Chipfunde, Christopher Chapano, Patience Chatukuta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crop diversification strategies for yield enhancement in finger millet-based cropping systems

Frontiers in Agronomy
Indian agriculture is confronted with a multitude of sustainability challenges, including the impacts of climate change, inefficiencies in input usage, depletion of natural resources, soil degradation, excessive energy consumption, and various ...
Shilpa, B. S. Lalitha, K. H. Nagaraj, K. N. Kalyana Murthy, H. M. Jayadeva, Manjanagouda S. Sannagoudar, R. Vasundhara, T. G. Amrutha, Mahantesh B. Nagangoudar, Gurunath Raddy, R. M. Salmankhan, C. Kavyashree, H. P. Thimmaiah, Siddanagouda B. Hosalli   +13 more
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King, Martin R. McAinsh, Michael R. Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of nutraceutical properties of selected small millets

Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2011
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the nutraceutical properties and nutritional value of grains of four selected small millets viz. finger millet, foxtail millet, prosomillet and khodomillet.
B Raghavendra Rao, Manojkumar H Nagasampige, M Ravikiran   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plant responses to iron nutrition with emphasis on the underutilized crop tef (Eragrostis tef): A review

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Iron (Fe) deficiency limits the physical health, cognitive development, and economic output of billions of people globally, especially children and productive‐age women. Tef is an underutilized and stress‐resilient crop, which is becoming popular for its grains containing high bioavailable Fe and has the potential to mitigate Fe deficiency.
Muhammad Numan, David Remington, Ayalew Ligaba‐Osena   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feed Intake, Digestibility and Live Weight Change of Lambs Fed Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana) Straw Supplemented With Atella, Noug Seed (Guizotia abyssinica) Cake and Their Mixtures

Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2012
Feed intake, digestibility and body weight change of lambs fed finger millet (Eleusine coracana) straw basal diet supplemented with atella (traditional brewery residue), noug seed (Guizotia abyssinica) cake and mixtures of atella and noug seedcake (NSC ...
Almaz Ayenew, Tamir Berhan, Melaku Solomon   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stable expression of mtlD gene imparts multiple stress tolerance in finger millet.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Finger millet is susceptible to abiotic stresses, especially drought and salinity stress, in the field during seed germination and early stages of seedling development. Therefore developing stress tolerant finger millet plants combating drought, salinity
Ramanna Hema, Ramu S Vemanna, Shivakumar Sreeramulu, Chandrasekhara P Reddy, Muthappa Senthil-Kumar, Makarla Udayakumar   +5 more
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Sonified Signals From a Compact FT‐ICR Instrument: A Feasibility Study. I—Data Mapping to an Equal‐Tempered Chromatic Scale

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rationale Ions trapped within a Penning cell (ICR) travel periodic orbits whose frequencies are dependent on their mass‐to‐charge ratio and the value of the magnetic field passing through the trap. Fourier transformation (FT‐ICR) decomposes the signal induced in the detection circuit by the rotation of the ions in the cell after the ...
Patrick Arpino, Michel Heninger
wiley   +1 more source