Millet is Alongside rice, maize and sorghum one of the main cereals grown in Senegal. However, its production still facing some challenges including weed pressure, lack nutrients water soil. This study aims to contribute improvement agricultural groundnut basin through sustainable management. Specifically, we intend to: 1-determine effect Prosopis juliflora extracts on stem growth yield, 2- cha...

The phytochemical content, antioxidant activity and antiproliferative properties of three diverse varieties of proso millet are reported. The free phenolic content ranged from 27.48 (Gumi 20) to 151.14 (Mi2504-6) mg gallic acid equiv/100 g DW. The bound phenolic content ranged from 55.95 (Gumi20) to 305.81 (Mi2504-6) mg gallic acid equiv/100 g DW. The percentage contribution of bound phenolic t...

Abstract Addressing the challenge of food and nutrition insecurity in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) will require innovative agriculture production systems that support multiple objectives. In recent years, several high‐yielding, nutrient‐dense varieties cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp), pearl millet Pennisetum glaucum R. Br.), sorghum Sorghum bicolor Moench) have been developed purposely as dua...

Lipoxygenase-1 (LOX-1) protein provides defense against pests and pathogens and its presence have been positively correlated with plant resistance against pathogens. Linoleate is a known substrate of lipoxygenase and it induces necrosis leading to the accumulation of isoflavonoid phytoalexins in plant leaves. Therefore, it is of interest to study the structural features of LOX-1 from Finger mil...

The graminous host range and sources of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.] plant resistance, including cross-resistance from greenbug, Schizaphis graminum (Rondani), were studied for the newly emerging sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner), in greenhouse no-choice experiments and field evaluations. The sugarcane aphid could not survive on field corn, Zea mays (L.), Teff grass, Era...

Sorghum–sudangrass (Sorghum bicolor × S. sudanense (Piper) Stapf.) and pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) provide adequate nutritive value for growing beef cattle; however, unlike millet, sorghum–sudangrass produces hydrocyanic acid (which is toxic to livestock) when frosted. Forage yield, value, weight gain of cattle grazing were compared during the frost-prone autumns 2013 2014, at...

Land con®guration in combination with nutrient management has the potential to improve the productivity of Al®sols and Vertisols in the semi-arid tropics. A four year (1989±1990 and 1992±1993) ®eld experiment was conducted at Coimbatore, India on Al®sols (Chromic Cambisol) to compare the effect of land con®guration and nutrient management practices on yield of rainfed sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (...

Expansion and contraction of microRNA (miRNA) families can be studied in sequenced plant genomes through sequence alignments. Here, we focused on miR169 in sorghum because of its implications in drought tolerance and stem-sugar content. We were able to discover many miR169 copies that have escaped standard genome annotation methods. A new miR169 cluster was found on sorghum chromosome 1. This c...

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...