The influence of four cereals namely, flours of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.)Moench) and maize (Zea mays L.)on the growth and development of T. castaneum was investigated at ambient tropical laboratory conditions of 30±3 ̊C and relative humidity of 75±5%. The antinutrients, mineral profile and proximate compositions of the four flour ...

Uganda is dominated by agriculture with over 80 percent of the 24.6 million people involved in subsistence farming. The most important cereals are maize, finger millet and sorghum in that order. Finger millet is the second most important cereal in Uganda after maize and exceeding sorghum both in area and production. It is the staple food for over 50% of the country’s 24.6 million people and inc...

In sub-Saharan Africa rain-fed agriculture cropping system uses a limited agricultural technology, occupies more than 95% of cultivated land. The impact of meteorological drivers on crop yields, and, in addition, the effects of herbicide application on farm productivity were examined at two locations; with a 70km distance between them, El Mazmum and El Dali in semi-arid Sudan. For ten successiv...

Background: Cereals are the most staple foods in human diet and the main components of the daily diet. This work was designed to determine the level of essential and non-essential elements, the in vitro bioavailability, interrelationship, and associated health risk in consumed cereal grains in Nigeria to assess their safety and wholesomeness. Methods: The contents of phytate, oxalate, and some...

Mycotoxins are toxic metabolites of fungi that contaminate food and feed. These toxins can cause acute chronic health threats to both humans animals. In sub-Saharan Africa, exposure mycotoxins is under-reported. The study explores contamination grains (sorghum, maize, groundnut, millet) with four (aflatoxins, fumonisins, ochratoxins, deoxynivalenol) dietary quantify associated risks in northern...

West African land use systems have been experiencing one of the fastest transformations in world over recent decades. The Sudanian savanna is an interesting example, as it hosts cultivation some crops typical Guinean well Sahel. Therefore, this region likely to experience further changes its crop portfolio next decades due migration processes responding environmental change. Simulation approach...

In Africa a variety of indigenous cereals, legumes and tubers are cultivated as starchy food crops. These include sorghum, millet species including pearl millet, finger millet, teff and white and black fonio, and African rice as cereals; cowpea, Bambara groundnut, African yambean and West African locust bean as legumes; and Zulu round potato and the Livingstone potato as tubers. Many of these p...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), also known as great millet, is one of the most popular cultivated grass species in the world. Sorghum is frequently consumed as food for humans and animals as well as used for ethanol production. In this study, we conducted de novo transcriptome assembly for sorghum variety Taejin by next-generation sequencing, obtaining 8.748 GB of raw data. The raw data in this stud...

In no-tillage systems, soil compaction has caused negative impacts on crop productivity and quality. The objective of this study was to evaluate the physical quality after different crops second season: maize, sorghum, millet in compacted uncompacted soils, addition evaluating performance soybean succession Rhodic Ferralsol under (NT) Brazilian Cerrado biome. A field experiment conducted during...

Crop populations in smallholder farming systems are shaped by the interaction of biological, ecological, and social processes, occurring on different spatiotemporal scales. Understanding these dynamics is fundamental for the conservation of crop genetic resources. In this study, we investigated the processes involved in sorghum and pearl millet diversity dynamics on Mount Kenya. Surveys were co...