With the ever-increasing world population, an extra 1.5 billion mouths need to be fed by
2050 with continuously dwindling arable land. Hence, it is imperative that extra food come …

Small millets are nutrient-rich food sources traditionally grown and consumed by
subsistence farmers in Asia and Africa. They include finger millet (Eleusine coracana), foxtail …

Abstract Background Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is an important staple
food crop widely grown in Africa and South Asia. Among the millets, finger millet has high …

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Nutritional Quality and Food, Feed,
Medicinal, and Other Uses Domestication, Phylogenetic, and Genomic Relationships …

Nutritional insecurity is a major threat to the world's population that is highly dependent on
cereals-based diet, deficient in micronutrients. Next to cereals, millets are the primary …

Globalization and industrialization of agriculture although benefitted with adequate food
supplies, its negative side effects have also been realized particularly with respect to loss of …

Small millets are very promising agricultural entity to ensure global food security. They
gained remarkable importance in agriculture due to their resilience to climatic changes and …

The rapid strides in molecular marker technologies followed by genomics, and next
generation sequencing advancements in three major crops (rice, maize and wheat) of the …

Finger millet is an important cereal crop in eastern Africa and southern India with excellent
grain storage quality and unique ability to thrive in extreme environmental conditions. Since …

The major limiting factor for production and productivity of finger millet crop is blast disease
caused by Magnaporthe grisea. Since, the genome sequence information available in finger …