We report the first study on the genetic control of flowering in Setaria, a panicoid grass closely related to switchgrass, and in the same subfamily as maize and sorghum. A recombinant inbred line mapping population derived from a cross between domesticated Setaria italica (foxtail millet) and its wild relative Setaria viridis (green millet), was grown in eight trials with varying environmental...

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...

Sustainable agricultural practices supporting food diversification and value addition of underutilized crops can support global security nutrition. Rediscovered ancient seed grains flours (barnyard millet, finger little sorghum) are emerging as sustainable alternatives due to high nutritional content climate resilience. The physical functional properties varied significantly (p < 0.05) among in...

Cross-cultural models are a useful tool to generate hypotheses about the past using ethnographic data, especially when they can be validated against archaeological record. In this paper, we propose use of computer modelling techniques gain insights into agricultural history in northern Horn Africa two key staple crops, i.e. finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). To dat...

MYB proteins represent one of the largest transcription factor families in plants, playing important roles in diverse developmental and stress-responsive processes. Considering its significance, several genome-wide analyses have been conducted in almost all land plants except foxtail millet. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) is a model crop for investigating systems biology of millets and bio...

The research was aimed to observe the effect of malting and fermentation on antinutritional component and functional characteristics of sorghum flour. For whole sorghum flour, cleaned sorghum grain was milled to pass through 40 mesh sieve. For malting, cleaned sorghum grain was steeped in 0.2% calcium hydroxide solution for 24 hr and then germinated for 48 hr at 90% RH and 27 ± 2°C. Sprout was ...

A big challenge for our century concerns discovering new foods, including re-discovering ancient wheat. Phenolic and steryl ferulates composition of Tuscan Campania wheat samples was evaluated by HPLC-DAD-MS/MS. Cinnamic acids flavonoids were expressed as ferulic acid schaftoside equivalents, respectively. Agronomic conditions with a higher rate plants/m2 promoted amounts phenols in most the va...

intercropping is considered for increasing and stability of yield in per unit. in order to study the effects of soybean (glycine max l.) and millet (panicum miliaceum l.) replacement intercropping on agronomic traits, diversity of weeds and soil biological activity, an experiment was conducted at the research station of agricultural faculty, of bu-ali sina university, in 2014. the experiment wa...