Water use and environmental parameters influence proso millet yield

Nielsen, D. G.; Vigil, Merle F.

doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2017.06.025

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“…Additionally, in the current study we found the climatic factors, excepted precipitation, seldom affect the spring wheat yield (the regression analysis results are not shown). It indicates that other climatic factors under extreme conditions occur seldom and they would not affect on crop production function for spring wheat in the study area, which contradicts the research of Nielsen & Vigil (2017b), in which water use-yield relation was affected greatly by a series of climatic factors, especially maximum temperature. Furthermore, in previous researchers, the non-linear relation between water use and crop yield is generally attributed to fluctuated soil evaporation which does not contribute to plant growth throughout the crop life cycle.…”

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Predicting spring wheat yields based on water use-yield production function in a semi-arid climate

Zhao

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2019

Span. j. agric. res.

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Grain yield of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) fluctuates greatly in Western Loess Plateau of China due to limited and highly variable precipitation. Farmers in this area need a simple tool to predict spring wheat grain yield and assess yield loss risk efficiently. The objectives of this study were to establish relations between water use and grain yield of spring wheat for predicting actual yield and attainable yield (water limited yield) under conventional management practice and mulching practices. Reference data during 1993-2013 and field experiment conducted from 1987 to 2011 were used to determine water use-yield production function and boundary function for spring wheat. Probability of achieving a given spring wheat grain yield threshold is determined based on available soil water content at sowing plus expected precipitation during growing season. Single linear equation was obtained with slope of 14.6 kg ha-1 mm-1 and x intercept at 126.3 mm for spring wheat water use-yield production function with different wheat varieties under varying climatic patterns. The slopes of the boundary function were 16.2 kg ha-1 mm-1 and 19.1 kg ha-1 mm-1 under conventional management practice and mulching practices, respectively. With increase of available soil water content at sowing, the probability of achieving at least 2000 and 4000 kg ha-1 of spring wheat for actual and attainable yield increased under different agricultural management practices.

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Predicting spring wheat yields based on water use-yield production function in a semi-arid climate

Zhao

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2019

Span. j. agric. res.

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“…Low water availability has a lesser effect on PM yield compared to other crops, and its yield increases with additional water at a rate of 132 kg/ha/cm. Yield response to water use of PM was 32.57 kg/ha/mm, which is higher than the other C4 crops, like corn 25.7 kg/ha/mm and grain sorghum 30.2 kg/ha/mm [11]. This indicated that PM has higher water-use efficiency than other C4 crops corn and sorghum.…”

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“…It also allows PM to adapt and grow without using much subsoil water and mostly relies on early summer rains. Due to this, the soil moisture level at planting can be used to predict grain yield as it responds more considerably to soil water at the time of planting when compared to crops such as corn, sunflower and sorghum [10,11,29].…”

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“…Its production in the Central Great Plains (CGP) is mainly concentrated in the states of Nebraska, Colorado and South Dakota [8]. Proso millet is an important rotational crop used in CGP following sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) and corn (Zea mays L.) because of the short growing season and high-water use efficiency [9,11]. The short growing season allows farmers to harvest the millet prior to sowing the winter crops.…”

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“…It is one of the best-suited crops for the rainfed agricultural system where annual rainfall is ≤100 mm [8,9]. The shallow root system (90-120 cm) and short growing season crop (60-90 days) make it an ideal dryland crop [10,11]. In the USA, it is grown as a dryland crop on an average of 204,366 ha land [12].…”

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Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

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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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Potential of short‐duration millets as a post‐winter wheat crop in Ontario, Canada

Pudasaini,

Raizada

2024

Agronomy Journal

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In northern latitudes, the diversity of the maize (Zea mays L.)–soybean (Glycine max L.) cropping system can be increased by including winter wheat as a rotation crop, providing long‐term benefits including improved nutrient availability, nutrient‐use efficiency, soil structure, and moisture holding. However, in Ontario, Canada, few farmers have adopted winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) due to low profitability. After the wheat harvest, there is a 3‐month window with warm days and moist soil, sufficient to grow a short‐duration crop. Some millet varieties are short duration. Millets are increasingly valued economically as “ancient grains” for humans, as a nutritious forage, and as effective cover crops due to their fibrous roots and dense foliage. Though millets offer similar long‐term benefits to wheat in a rotation, they cannot economically compete with maize or soybean as a summer season crop. We hypothesized that the economic constraints of winter wheat and millets could be overcome by double cropping, specifically by adding a low‐input, short‐duration millet after winter wheat is harvested. The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of millets as a post‐winter wheat crop in Ontario. Three years of field trials (2020–2022) were conducted in Elora and Essex, Ontario, starting with 81 accessions of five millet crops. Selected accessions of proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) produced up to 0.5 t/ha grain yield, whereas foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beav] and barnyard millet (Echinochloa spp.) at Elora, and fonio (Digitaria sp.) in Essex produced up to 0.9–1.6 t/ha dry shoot yield. However, planting date, initial soil moisture, weed management, and fall frost were observed to be critical for millet success.

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Water use and environmental parameters influence proso millet yield

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Predicting spring wheat yields based on water use-yield production function in a semi-arid climate

Predicting spring wheat yields based on water use-yield production function in a semi-arid climate

Beyond Bird Feed: Proso Millet for Human Health and Environment

Potential of short‐duration millets as a post‐winter wheat crop in Ontario, Canada

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