An extensive survey of the standing genetic variation in natural populations is among the priority steps in developing a species into a model system. In recent years, green foxtail (Setaria viridis), along with its domesticated form foxtail millet (S. italica), has rapidly become a promising new model system for C4 grasses and bioenergy crops, due to its rapid life cycle, large amount of seed p...

GPUF 3, a new foxtail millet variety was developed at the Project Coordinating unit, ICAR- AICRP on Small Millets, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru for cultivation in zone 5 and 6 Karnataka state.  It has been evolved through pureline selection from germplasm IC 479864. This matures 85-90 days. semi compact oblong shaped inflorescence. The grains are oval shape yellow c...

Foxtail millet is an important crop in Northwest China; however, the mechanism responsible for regulating root adjustment, including water uptake, sugar transport, or metabolism, foxtail remains unclear. Two cultivars (the drought-resistant Yugu1 [YG] and drought-sensitive An04 [An]) were used to detect physiological, molecular, agronomic traits under two different soil conditions. Water use ef...

We examined the effects of intake of Korean foxtail millet protein (FMP) on plasma levels of lipid, glucose, insulin, and adiponectin in genetically type 2 diabetic KK-Ay mice. When mice were fed a normal FMP diet or a high-fat-high-sucrose diet containing FMP for 3 weeks, in both experiments plasma concentrations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-cholesterol) and adiponectin increas...

Considering the health benefits of extruding germinated multi-millet grains, current study emphasizes extrusion processing grain blends (sorghum millet, finger foxtail pearl and rice) in various ratios 11.5:11.5:11.5:11.5:6:4 to produce nutritionally important expanded snack products. The process was adjusted for all preparations under a controlled moisture content 20-21% (w.b.), at most stable...