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  2. Sorghum - Wikipedia

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    Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum [2] (/ ˈ s ɔːr ɡ ə m /) and also known as great millet, [3] broomcorn, [4] guinea corn, [5] durra, [6] imphee, [7] jowar, [8] or milo, [9] is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used as food by humans, while the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol ...

  3. Millet - Wikipedia

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    Compared to forage sorghum, animals including lambs gain weight faster on millet, and it has better hay or silage potential, although it produces less dry matter. [64] Millet does not contain toxic prussic acid, sometimes found in sorghum. [65] The rapid growth of millet as a grazing crop allows flexibility in its use.

  4. Pearl millet - Wikipedia

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    Pearl millet has ovoid grains of 3–4 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 32 in) length, the largest kernels of all varieties of millet (not including sorghum). These can be nearly white, pale yellow, brown, grey, slate blue or purple. The 1000-seed weight can be anything from 2.5 to 14 g with a mean of 8 g.

  5. Cereal - Wikipedia

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    Cereal grains: (top) pearl millet, rice, barley (middle) sorghum, maize, oats (bottom) millet, wheat, rye, triticale. A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize.

  6. Macrotyloma uniflorum - Wikipedia

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    The plant is not only cultivated as a monoculture, but also as an inter- or mixed crop together with groundnut, sorghum, sesame, niger, maize, finger millet, pearl millet, amaranth, marvel grass or kidney bean. Furthermore, Macrotyloma uniflorum can also be grown along with trees such as neem, white siris or babul.

  7. List of porridges - Wikipedia

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    It can be made from combinations of sorghum flour, broomcorn millet or proso millet flour and glutinous millet flour. Champorado or tsampurado – a sweet chocolate rice porridge in Philippine cuisine. Congee – type of rice porridge or gruel popular in many Asian countries. Names for congee are as varied as the style of its preparation.

  8. Agriculture classification of crops - Wikipedia

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    The term is applicable to the grains obtained from the members of the family Poaceae, such as rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, barley, millet, rye, oats. Pseudocereals are plants used similarly to cereals but belonging to families other than Poaceae such as buckwheat or amaranth .

  9. Proso millet - Wikipedia

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    Proso millet is a relative of foxtail millet, pearl millet, maize, and sorghum within the grass subfamily Panicoideae. While all of these crops use C4 photosynthesis , the others all employ the NADP-ME as their primary carbon shuttle pathway, while the primary C4 carbon shuttle in proso millet is the NAD-ME pathway.