“…Mutant populations have been characterized in both foxtail millet and green foxtail millet, and the identity of candidate genes was revealed by novel high-throughput sequencing approaches (Li et al, 2016; Liu et al, 2016; Martins et al, 2016; Xue et al, 2016). S. italica and S. viridis have been used in the characterization of important agronomic traits, including yield-related architectural traits such as height, branching, biomass, flowering time and domestication-related traits such as shattering (Qian et al, 2012; Jia et al, 2013; Mauro-Herrera et al, 2013; Wang et al, 2013; Doust et al, 2014; Gupta et al, 2014; Layton and Kellogg, 2014; Qie et al, 2014; Fahlgren et al, 2015; Fang et al, 2016; Hodge and Kellogg, 2016; Liu et al, 2016; Mauro-Herrera and Doust, 2016). …”