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Foxtail millet: An introduction

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Title Foxtail millet: An introduction
 
Creator Singh, Roshan Kumar
Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject Foxtail Millet
 
Description Accepted date: November 25, 2017
Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) is a versatile crop known for being genetically closely related to biofuel grasses, for its C4 photosynthesis, and for its tolerance to abiotic stresses. These attributes have made this crop a model system and, in view of this, the genome of foxtail millet has been sequenced. Among millets, foxtail millet is the only crop possessing rich genetic and genomic resources, and globally it is the second most cultivated millet next to pearl millet. In the context of its importance in agronomic and research terms, the present chapter summarizes the origin, domestication, phylogeny, and agroeconomic importance of foxtail millet.
Studies on millet genomics in Dr. Manoj Prasad’s laboratory are supported by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India [Grant No. EMR/2015/000464], by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India [Grant No. BT/HRD/NBA/37/01/2014], and by Core Grant of National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India. Roshan K. Singh acknowledges the research fellowship received from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India.
 
Date 2018-01-05T04:19:11Z
2018-01-05T04:19:11Z
2017
 
Type Book chapter
 
Identifier In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 1-9
978-3-319-65617-5
http://223.31.159.10:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/817
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65617-5_1
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65617-5_1
 
Language en_US
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Springer