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Description. Foxtail millet is an annual grass with slim, vertical, leafy stems which can reach a height of 120–200 cm (3 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in). The seedhead is a dense, hairy panicle 5–30 cm (2 in – 1 ft 0 in) long. The small seeds, around 2 millimetres (3⁄32 in) in diameter, are encased in a thin, papery hull which is easily removed ...
Evidence at Cishan for foxtail millet dates back to around 8,700 years ago. [14] Noodles made from these two varieties of millet were found under a 4,000-year-old earthenware bowl containing well-preserved noodles at the Lajia archaeological site in north China; this is the oldest evidence of millet noodles in China. [20] [21]
Website. millets.res.in. The Indian Institute of Millets Research (ICAR-IIMR) located at Rajendranagar (Hyderabad, Telangana, India) is an agricultural research institute engaged in basic and strategic research on sorghum and other millets. IIMR operates under the aegis of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
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.
A. Gray. Tema Adans. Echinochloa is a very widespread genus of plants in the grass family and tribe Paniceae. [3][4][5] Some of the species are known by the common names barnyard grass or cockspur grass.[6][7] Some of the species within this genus are millets that are grown as cereal or fodder crops. The most notable of these are Japanese ...
Setaria faberi, the Japanese bristlegrass, [ 2 ]nodding bristle-grass, [ 3 ]Chinese foxtail, Chinese millet, giant bristlegrass, giant foxtail or nodding foxtail, is an Asian grass. It is a summer annual, with plants emerging from seeds in the spring, and setting seeds in the late summer or fall. Giant foxtails prefer compacted soils, high in ...
Finger millet is a short-day plant with a growing optimum 12 hours of daylight for most varieties. Its main growing area ranges from 20°N to 20°S, meaning mainly the semiarid to arid tropics. Nevertheless, finger millet is found to be grown at 30°N in the Himalaya region (India and Nepal). It is generally considered as a drought-tolerant ...
Both Echinochloa frumentacea and E. esculenta are called Japanese millet. This millet is widely grown as a cereal in India , Pakistan , and Nepal . Its wild ancestor is the tropical grass Echinochloa colona , [ 3 ] but the exact date or region of domestication is uncertain.