Effect of Pre- and Post-heading Water Deficit on Growth and Grain Yield of Four Millets

Matsuura, Asana; Tsuji, Wataru; An, Ping; Inanaga, Shinobu; Murata, Kouhei

doi:10.1626/pps.15.323

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“…The critical stage for water requirement in PM is before and after anthesis. Water stress during flower induction and inflorescence can delay flowering [32][33][34]. However, a recent study by Habiyaremye et al, reported water stress did not affect flowering of PM [9].…”

Section: Droughtmentioning

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Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

et al. 2019

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Domesticated in 8000–10,000 BP in northern China, proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is the best adaptive rotational crop for semiarid central High Plains of the USA, where average annual precipitation is 356–407 mm. Proso millet has multiple benefits when consumed as human food. Proso millet is rich in minerals, dietary fiber, polyphenols, vitamins and proteins. It is gluten-free and therefore, ideal for the gluten intolerant people. Proso millet contains high lecithin which supports the neural health system. It is rich in vitamins (niacin, B-complex vitamins, folic acid), minerals (P, Ca, Zn, Fe) and essential amino acids (methionine and cysteine). It has a low glycemic index and reduces the risk of type-2 diabetes. Unfortunately, in the USA, it is mostly considered as bird feed, whereas it is mainly used as human food in many other countries. Besides human health benefits, proso millet has an impeccable environmental benefit. Proso millet possesses many unique characteristics (e.g., drought tolerance, short-growing season) which makes it a promising rotational crop for winter wheat-based dryland farming systems. Proso millet provides the most economical production system when used in a two years wheat/summer fallow cropping system in semiarid High Plains of the USA. It helps in controlling winter annual grass weeds, managing disease and insect pressure and preserving deep soil moisture for wheat. Proso millet can also be used as a rotational crop with corn or sorghum owing to its tolerance for atrazine, the primary herbicide used in corn and sorghum production systems. Proso millet certainly is a climate-smart, gluten-free, ancient, and small grain cereal, which is healthy to humans and the environment. The main challenge is to expand the proso millet market beyond bird feed into the human food industry. To overcome the challenge, unique proso millet varieties for human food and ready-to-use multiple food products must be developed. This requires successful collaboration among experts from diverse disciplines such as breeders, geneticists, food chemists and food industry partners.

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Section: Droughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

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“…Compared to Sorghum bicolor , P. miliaceum was more susceptible to water stress, with 77% reduction in yield, particularly with the middle and late-maturing types (Emendack et al, 2011). In another study, P. miliaceum had 36% yield reduction when water deficit was imposed both at pre- and post-heading stages, due to smaller number of grains per panicle, fewer panicles and reduction in total dry weight (Matsuura et al, 2012). …”

Section: Genetics and Genomics Of Proso Milletmentioning

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Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) and Its Potential for Cultivation in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.: A Review

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Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is a warm season grass with a growing season of 60–100 days. It is a highly nutritious cereal grain used for human consumption, bird seed, and/or ethanol production. Unique characteristics, such as drought and heat tolerance, make proso millet a promising alternative cash crop for the Pacific Northwest (PNW) region of the United States. Development of proso millet varieties adapted to dryland farming regions of the PNW could give growers a much-needed option for diversifying their predominantly wheat-based cropping systems. In this review, the agronomic characteristics of proso millet are discussed, with emphasis on growth habits and environmental requirements, place in prevailing crop rotations in the PNW, and nutritional and health benefits. The genetics of proso millet and the genomic resources available for breeding adapted varieties are also discussed. Last, challenges and opportunities of proso millet cultivation in the PNW are explored, including the potential for entering novel and regional markets.

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“…Several researchers have reported on the detrimental effects of water stress on proso millet yield for the period shortly before and after anthesis (Seghatoleslami et al, 2008;Emendack et al, 2011;Matsuura et al, 2012). Although there appear to be no reported field or greenhouse studies of the effects of high temperatures on proso millet yield, Habiyaremye et al (2017) suggested that temperatures above 30°C stopped proso millet vegetative growth and flowering.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water use and environmental parameters influence proso millet yield

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2017

Field Crops Research

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Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is a short-season, drought-tolerant C4 species capable of making use of limited available water supplies and is suitable for dryland crop rotations in the Central Great Plains. Previously published water use/yield production functions for proso millet have slopes lower than reported for other C4 species in this region. The objectives of this experiment were to determine the water-limited yield relationship for proso millet and to identify environmental factors that cause yields to be lower than predicted by the waterlimited yield relationship. Water use and yield data were obtained from a long-term crop rotation experiment conducted under dryland conditions in northeast Colorado from 1995 to 2016. Stepwise linear regression analysis was used to determine important environmental factors influencing yield. The water-limited yield relationship had a slope consistent with other C4 species in this region (32.57 kg ha −1 per mm of water use). A relationship based on growing season water use, plant available soil water at planting, precipitation received from 12 to 18 August, number days in July and August with maximum temperature greater than 36°C, daily average wind run and maximum wind gust during the week before swathing explained 88% of yield variability. The results of this analysis suggest that closing the yield gap for proso millet production could likely result from efforts to breed for enhanced shattering resistance and heat tolerance and from production methods that improve precipitation storage efficiency during the non-crop period prior to millet planting and increase available soil water at millet planting.

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Effect of Pre- and Post-heading Water Deficit on Growth and Grain Yield of Four Millets

Cited by 34 publications

References 35 publications

Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) and Its Potential for Cultivation in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.: A Review

Water use and environmental parameters influence proso millet yield

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