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

M Vetriventhan, VCR Azevedo, HD Upadhyaya… - The Nucleus, 2020 - Springer
Current agricultural and food systems encourage research and development on major
crops, neglecting regionally important minor crops. Small millets include a group of small …

Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) and Its Potential for Cultivation in the Pacific Northwest, US: A Review

C Habiyaremye, JB Matanguihan… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is a warm season grass with a growing season of 60–
100 days. It is a highly nutritious cereal grain used for human consumption, bird seed, and/or …

Pangenome analysis reveals genomic variations associated with domestication traits in broomcorn millet

J Chen, Y Liu, M Liu, W Guo, Y Wang, Q He, W Chen… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is an orphan crop with the potential to improve
cereal production and quality, and ensure food security. Here we present the genetic …

A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable loci

S Mamidi, A Healey, P Huang, J Grimwood… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Wild and weedy relatives of domesticated crops harbor genetic variants that can advance
agricultural biotechnology. Here we provide a genome resource for the wild plant green …

Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria

JL Bennetzen, J Schmutz, H Wang, R Percifield… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We generated a high-quality reference genome sequence for foxtail millet (Setaria italica).
The∼ 400-Mb assembly covers∼ 80% of the genome and> 95% of the gene space. The …

[書籍][B] Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin

D Zohary, M Hopf, E Weiss - 2012 - books.google.com
The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago

H Lu, J Zhang, K Liu, N Wu, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The origin of millet from Neolithic China has generally been accepted, but it remains
unknown whether common millet (Panicum miliaceum) or foxtail millet (Setaria italica) was …

Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age

CJ Stevens, C Murphy, R Roberts, L Lucas… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The period from the late third millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD witnesses
the first steps towards food globalization in which a significant number of important crops …

Genetic diversity and genomic resources available for the small millet crops to accelerate a New Green Revolution

TL Goron, MN Raizada - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Small millets are nutrient-rich food sources traditionally grown and consumed by
subsistence farmers in Asia and Africa. They include finger millet (Eleusine coracana), foxtail …

Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

L Barton, SD Newsome, FH Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Stable isotope biochemistry (δ13C and δ15N) and radiocarbon dating of ancient human and
animal bone document 2 distinct phases of plant and animal domestication at the Dadiwan …