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Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is an annual herbaceous plant widely grown as a cereal crop in the arid and semiarid areas in Africa and Asia. It is a tetraploid and self-pollinating species probably evolved from its wild relative Eleusine africana. [2] Finger millet is native to the Ethiopian and Ugandan highlands. [3]
Finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet are other important crop species. Millets may have been consumed by humans for about 7,000 years and potentially had "a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies".
Eleusine coracana: Finger millet; Eragrostis tef: Teff; Paniceae tribe in the subfamily Panicoideae: Genus Panicum: Panicum miliaceum: Proso millet (common millet, broomcorn millet) Panicum sumatrense: Little millet; Pennisetum glaucum: Pearl millet; Setaria italica: Foxtail millet; Genus Digitaria. Digitaria exilis: White fonio; Digitaria ...
Digitaria sanguinalis is a species of grass known by several common names, including hairy crabgrass, [2] hairy finger-grass, [3] large crabgrass, crab finger grass, purple crabgrass. [4] It is one of the better-known species of the genus Digitaria , and one that is known nearly worldwide as a common weed.
Eleusine is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family, [3] [4] sometimes called by the common name goosegrass. [5] [6] One species, Eleusine indica, is a widespread weed in many places. Another species, Eleusine coracana, is finger millet, cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa. [7] Species [8] [9]
Binomial name; Haplothrips aculeatus (F., 1803) ... It is a pest of millets such as sorghum, finger millet, pearl millet, and foxtail millet in Asia. [1] References
Ragi mudde, ragi sangati or kali, colloquially simply referred to as either mudde or hittu which means 'lump' or 'dough', is a finger millet swallow dish of India in the state of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (Rayalaseema region). [1] In Tamil Nadu, especially in western Tamil Nadu, it is also called ragi kali.
Paspalum scrobiculatum, commonly called kodo millet or koda millet, [1] [2] [3] is an annual grain that is grown primarily in Nepal (not to be confused with ragi (finger millet, Eleusine coracana)) [4] [5] and also in India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and in West Africa from where it originated.