Foxtail millet is one of the oldest domesticated diploid C4 Panicoid crops having a
comparatively small genome size of approximately 515 Mb, short life cycle, and inbreeding …

Genomics and bioinformatics have great potential to help address numerous topics in
ecology and evolution. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) can bridge genomics and …

Phenotyping has become the rate-limiting step in using large-scale genomic data to
understand and improve agricultural crops. Here, the Bellwether Phenotyping Platform for …

C4 photosynthesis drives productivity in several major food crops and bioenergy grasses,
including maize (Zea mays), sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), sorghum (Sorghum …

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is a small diploid C4 panicoid crop species, whose genome is
being sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) of the Department of Energy. The …

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

Tillering (branching) is a major determinant of crop yield that is controlled by complex
interactions between hormonal, developmental, and environmental factors. Historically …

The rice orthologue of maize domestication gene Teosinte branched 1 (Tb1) affects tillering.
But, unlike maize Tb1 gene, it was not selected during domestication. Here, we report that …

Domestication is a multifaceted evolutionary process, involving changes in individual genes,
genetic interactions, and emergent phenotypes. There has been extensive discussion of the …

Background The cereal crops domesticated from grasses provide a large percentage of the
calories consumed by humans. Domestication and breeding in individual cereals has …