Finger and foxtail millets

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Genetic and genomic resources, and breeding for accelerating improvement of small millets: current status and future interventions

“…The major collections of foxtail millet germplasm are conserved in China, India, France, and Japan, while India and African countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Zambia have major finger millet collections. Similarly, the major collections of proso millet germplasm are in the Russia, China, Ukraine, and India; barnyard millet in Japan and India; kodo millet in India and USA; and little millet in India [171,175]. Major collections of teff, fonio and job's tears were conserved in Ethiopia, USA and Japan, respectively.…”

“…Ramakrishnan et al [141] identified finger millet mini core accessions tolerant to low phosphorus stress; five (IE 5201, IE 2871, IE 7320, IE 2034, IE 3391) of them had high root and shoot length, root hair density, and root hair length. A limited number of resistant sources for major diseases, and to some extent, for pests in proso, barnyard, little and kodo millets have been reported [171,175]. In teff, shoot fly is an important insect pests.…”

Biofortification in Millets: A Sustainable Approach for Nutritional Security

“…Of this, pearl millet constitutes the vast majority of germplasm represented by 23,092 accessions including landraces, cultivars, genetic stocks, breeding lines, and wild relatives (Upadhyaya et al, 2016a). Finger millet germplasm consisting of 6,084 accessions is grouped under two subspecies, africana and coracana on the basis of morphology of inflorescence (Vetriventhan et al, 2016). Foxtail millet is a self-fertilizing species including 1,542 accessions from 23 different countries.…”

“…Foxtail millet is a self-fertilizing species including 1,542 accessions from 23 different countries. Foxtail millet accessions are classified into three races, namely indica, maxima , and moharia and 10 subraces (Vetriventhan et al, 2016). Barnyard millet germplasm comprises of 749 accessions mainly from Japan and India (Upadhyaya et al, 2016c).…”

Variation in Drought‐Tolerance Components and their Interrelationships in the Minicore Collection of Finger Millet Germplasm

“…Finger millet straw is used as forage for cattle, sheep, and goats. In Uganda, the byproducts of finger millet beer production are fed to chickens, pigs, and other animals (Vetriventhan et al, 2016). It is an ideal food for expectant women, breast-feeding mothers, children, the sick, and diabetics (National Research Council, 1996).…”