Nutritional insecurity is a major threat to the world's population that is highly dependent on cereals-based diet, deficient in micronutrients. Next to cereals, millets are the primary sources of energy in the semi-arid tropics and drought-prone regions of Asia and Africa. Millets are nutritionally superior as their grains contain high amount of proteins, essential amino acids, minerals, and vi...

Purpose: To enhance the in vitro synthesis of short chain fatty acids through millet dietary fibre fermentation by human faecal probiotic bacteria. Methods: The effect of millet dietary fibre fermentation on production of short chain fatty acids (SCFA) by four probiotics was studied. Dietary fibre was extracted from two millet varieties viz Pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum (PM) and Foxtail mill...

Millets are major food and feed sources in the developing world especially in the semiarid tropical regions of Africa and Asia. The most widely cultivated millets are pearl mil‐ let [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.], finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn], foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauvois], Japanese barnyard millet [Echinochloa esculneta (A. Braun) H. Scholz], Indian Barny...

By roughly 8,000 calendar years before the present (calBP), hunter-gatherers across a broad swath of north China had begun small-scale farming of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica). According to traditional wisdom, this early millet farming evolved from the intensive hunter-gatherer adaptation represented by the late Pleistocene microblade tradition of nor...

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) is an important food crop with strong drought stress tolerance. The response of foxtail to a complex regulatory network. It great guiding significance for agricultural production continuously explore candidate genes resistance and reveal the molecular mechanism metabolic pathway This study investigated three different cultivars resistance. Drought reduced wat...

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 millet (Setaria italica), kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum), proso millet (Panicum miliaceum), barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.), and little millet (Panicum sumatrense). Local farmers value the small millets for thei...

inhibiting subtilisin BPN'. This paper describes purification and characterization of a subtilisin inhibitor (FMSI) from foxtail millet grain. Protein was measured by the method of Lowry et al.2) using bovine serum albumin as a standard. Protein concentrations of enzyme solutions were measured spectrophotometrically with extinction coefficients as described previously.3) The concentration of St...

in order to select and release of bastan a new cultivar of foxtail millet, after preliminary selections in small millet germplasm a research was carried during 1997-2003 in karaj, golestan and dezful. during these years production potential of 10 foxtail millet genotypes was determined in a randomized complete block design for 3 years. the different characteristics include, leaf size, stem diam...

ADP-ribosylation factors (ARFs) have been reported to function in diverse physiological and molecular activities. Recent evidences also demonstrate the involvement of ARFs in conferring tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses in plant species. In the present study, 23 and 25 ARF proteins were identified in C3 model- rice and C4 model- foxtail millet, respectively. These proteins are classified...

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis along the leaf developmental gradient of sigma factor gene family in foxtail millet (Setaria italica)Hongyun Liu, Jinjin Cheng, Siyuan Hui Fan , Bo Wen Zheng Liu