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Echinochloa esculenta or Echinochloa utilis is a type of millet originating from East Asia, and is part of the Poaceae family, making it a grass. [2] E. esculenta is colloquially known as Japanese millet, but possesses many other names, such as: Japanese barnyard millet, marsh millet, Siberian millet, and white millet. [3]
Echinochloa frumentacea (Indian barnyard millet, sawa millet, or billion dollar grass) [2] is a species of Echinochloa. Both Echinochloa frumentacea and E. esculenta are called Japanese millet . This millet is widely grown as a cereal in India , Pakistan , and Nepal .
The most notable of these are Japanese millet (E. esculenta) in East Asia, Indian barnyard millet (E. frumentacea) in South Asia, and burgu millet (E. stagnina) in West Africa. Collectively, the members of this genus are called barnyard grasses (though this may also refer to E. crus-galli specifically), and are also known as barnyard millets or ...
Japanese millet is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Echinochloa esculenta; Echinochloa frumentacea [1] [2] [3] References
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. Farmers can wait until sufficient late spring / summer moisture is present and then make use of it. It is ideally suited to irrigation where livestock finishing is required. [64] [65] [66]
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Browntop millet can represent up to 10–25% of the diet of terrestrial and water birds. [15] Also 50% of ingested seed found in mourning dove 's crops was browntop millet. [ 16 ] Urochloa ramosa is also used to suppress root-knot nematode populations in tomato and pepper crops in south-eastern states of America.
Spodiopogon formosanus or the Taiwan oil millet (Chinese: 臺灣油芒; pinyin: táiwān yóumáng [1]) (syn.: Eccoilopus formosanus [2]) is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae. It is endemic to Taiwan . [ 3 ]