Clinical evaluation of pearl millet conophor weaning mix as supplementary food for Nigerian children

The Acceptability of Whey-soy Mix as a Supplementary Food for Preschool Children in Developing Countries

Production and Nutritional Value of Weaning Foods from Mixtures of Pearl Millet and Cowpeas'

Cereal Chem. 70(1):14-18 Weaning foods were produced by mixing decorticated and press-dried for the preparation of porridgelike weaning foods. Sorghum malt hydropearl millet (70%) and cowpea (30%) with and without sorghum malt. lyzed the starch and produced a beverage that contained 17% protein Decorticated millet and cowpea flours were cooked into a slurry and with 90% of the essential amino a...

Gene Effects Controlling Heritability of Downy Mildew Resistance in Nigerian Elite Pearl Millet Lines

Downy mildew disease caused by the fungus Sclerospora graminicola Schroet, causes yield losses across the millet growing zones of Nigeria. Identification of the source of resistance and gene actions controlling resistance is useful in developing appropriate breeding strategies. Therefore there was need to study downy mildew resistance in Nigerian elite pearl millet lines. Five pearl millet pare...

Pearl Millet Growth as Affected by Phosphorus and Water

The interaction of soiil water and P supply is of paramount importance to pearl millet [Penniseturn gluucum (L.) R. Br.] growth in Sahelian Africa due to unreliable rainfall and low soil P availability. This study was conducted to quantify the growth response of pe:ul millet to water supply and P under conditions analogous to the Saliel in terms of climatle and soil. Millet was grown for 84 d i...

Phosphate supply as a promoter of tolerance to arsenic in pearl millet

Many soils are contaminated by heavy metals, with arsenic posing serious environmental threat. Enrichment of soil with phosphate is believed to reduce the arsenic toxicity. However, only a few attempts have already been conducted towards understanding the precise role of phosphate in controlling As toxicity. Moreover, there is no adequate information on the effect of phosphate on As-induced...