Germinated finger millet, pearl millet and foxtail flours were investigated for their antinutritional factors, functional properties, colour, mineral nutritional composition. The results showed that tannin in was reduced after germination is 168 mg/100g, whereas it 115 197 mg/100g respectively. germinated flour, flour decrease bulk density viz. 540, 475 489 kg/m3 exhibited 124.04, 125.0 120.23 ...

The article presents the results of the analysis of survey archaeobotany samples from the Sushui valley. This provides evidence for changes over time for a region in the proportions of crops, especially rice versus millets. In addition, the composition of samples, both grouped by period and considered on a sample-by-sample basis, are considered as representing routine crop-processing waste, fro...

Weaning is an important milestone in a baby’s life and weaning practices are strongly associated with culture of a society. In present investigation, an extensive survey was conducted on approximately 300 weaning children belonging to 12 Anganwadis (AWW) of 6 Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) regions lying in Jabalpur District to identify the traditional dietary pattern of weaning chil...

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica (L.) Beauv) is one of the earliest domesticated grains, which has been cultivated in northern China by 8,700 years before present (YBP) and across Eurasia by 4,000 YBP. Owing to a small genome and diploid nature, foxtail millet is a tractable model crop for studying functional genomics of millets and bioenergy grasses. In this study, we examined nucleotide sequen...

An experiment was conducted to analyze the genetic diversity among 38 maize germplasm accessions of the maize germplasm bank of Department of Millets, TNAU, Coimbatore. Observations regarding 25 morphological traits were recorded and the data matrix was used for estimation of Euclidian distance by Un-weighted Paired Group Arithmetic Average (UPGMA) method. Clustering was done by Sequential Aggl...

In India there are regions of high incidence and regions of low incidence of duodenal ulcer. Rats prefed for two weeks on diets from low incidence areas developed significantly fewer rumenal ulcers after pyloric ligation than rats fed on diets from high incidence areas. The protective action was found in various individual items of food taken from the diets of low incidence areas. Unrefined whe...