Early presence/introduction of African and East Asian millets in India: integral to traditional agriculture

Achaya KT. The illustrated food of India A–Z. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2009; ISBN-13: 9780195698442

Aldrich PR, Doebley J. Restriction fragment variation in the nuclear and chloroplast genomes of cultivated and wild Sorghum bicolor. Theor Appl Genet. 1992;85(2–3):293–302.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Aldrich PR, Doebley J, Schertz KF, Stec A. Patterns of allozyme variation in cultivated and wild Sorghum bicolor. Theor Appl Genet. 1992;85(4):451–60.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Appa R, Prasada Rao K, Mengesha M, Reddy V. Geographical distribution, diversity and gap analysis of east African sorghum collection conserved at the ICRISAT Genebank. Genet Resour Crop Evol. 1996;43(6):559–67.

Google Scholar 

Baltensperger DD. Foxtail and proso millet. In: Janick J, editor. Progress in new crops. Alexandria: ASHS Press; 1996. p. 182–90.

Google Scholar 

Beldados A, Manzo A, Murphy C, Stevens CJ, Fuller DQ. Evidence of sorghum cultivation and possible pearl millet in the second millennium BC at Kassala, Eastern Sudan. In: Mercuri AM, D’Andrea AC, Fornaciari R, Höhn A, editors. Plants and people in the African past. Cham: Springer; 2018. p. 503–28.

Chapter  Google Scholar 

Bhava Mishra (X edition in Hindi) Bhava Prakash Nighantu (Indian Materia Medica). Commentary by Chunekar KC, Pandey GS, editor. Chaukhambha Bharti Academy, Varanasi. (ca.1600 AD) 1995.

Billot C, Ramu P, Bouchet S, Chantereau J, Deu M, et al. Massive sorghum collection genotyped with SSR Markers to enhance use of global genetic resources. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(4): e59714.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Bisht MS, Mukai Y. Genomic in situ hybridization identifies genome donor of finger millet (Eleusine coracana). Theor Appl Genet. 2001;102:825–32.

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Bisht MS, Mukai Y. Mapping of rDNA on the chromosomes of Eleusine species by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Genes Genet Syst. 2000;75:343–8.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Blench R. The movement of cultivated plants between Africa and India in prehistory. In: Neumann K, Butler A, Kahlheber S, editors. Food, fuel and fields progress in African archaeobotany, Africa Praehistorica 15 Heinrich-Barth Institute Cologne; 2003. p. 273–292.

Boivin N, Fuller DQ. Shell middens, ships and seeds: exploring coastal subsistence, maritime trade and the dispersal of domesticates in and around the ancient Arabian Peninsula. J World Prehist. 2009;22(2):113–8.

Article  Google Scholar 

Brutnell TP, Wang L, Swartwood K, Goldschmidt A, Jackson D, Zhu XG, Kellogg E, Van Eck J. Setaria viridis: a model for C4 photosynthesis. Plant Cell. 2010;22:2537–44.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Burgarella C, Cubry P, Kane NA, Varshney RK, Mariac C, Liu X, et al. A western Sahara origin of African agriculture inferred from pearl millet genomes. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018;2:1377–80.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Casa AM, Mitchell SE, Hamblin MT, Sun H, Bowers JE, et al. Diversity and selection in sorghum: simultaneous analyses using simple sequence repeats. Theor Appl Genet. 2005;111:23–30.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Casa AM, Pressoir G, Brown PJ, Mitchell SE, Rooney WL, et al. Community resources and strategies for association mapping in Sorghum. Crop Sci. 2008;48:30–40.

Article  Google Scholar 

Choudhary P, Shukla P. Muthamilarasan Mehanathan genetic enhancement of climate-resilient traits in small millets: a review. Heliyon. 2023;9(4): e14502.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Cui YX, Xu GW, Magill CW, Schertz KF, Hart GE. RFLP based assay of Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench genetic diversity. Theor Appl Genet. 1995;90:787–96.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Dahlberg JA, Wasylikowa K. Image and statistical analyses of early sorghum remains (8000 BP) from the Nabta Playa archaeological site in the western desert, southern Egypt. Veg Hist Archaeobot. 1996;5:293–9.

Article  Google Scholar 

De Candolle A. Plants cultivated for their seeds. In: Origin of cultivated plants, 2nd Edition, International Scientific Series Vol. XLIX, Kegan Paul Trench & Co., London. 1886. p. 376–384. https://archive.org/download/originofcultivat00cand/originofcultivat00cand.pdf

de Oliviera AC, Richter T, Bennetzen JL. Regional and racial specificities in sorghum germplasm assessed with DNA markers. Genome. 1996;39:579–87.

Article  Google Scholar 

de Wet JMJ, Prasada Rao KE, Brink DE, Mengesha MH. Systematics and evolution of Eleusine coracana (Gramineae). Am J Bot. 1984;71(4):550–7.

Article  Google Scholar 

de Wet JMJ, Harlan JR. The origin and domestication of Sorghum bicolor. Econ Bot. 1971;25:128–35.

Article  Google Scholar 

de Wet JMJ, Harlan JR. Weeds and domesticates: Evolution in the man-made habitat. Econ Bot. 1975;29:99–107.

Article  Google Scholar 

de Wet JMJ. Pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum. In: Smartt J, Simmonds NW, editors. Evolution of crop plants 2nd edn. Longman Singapore Pub. Ltd., Singapore; 1995. p. 156–159.

de Wet JMJ. Systematics and evolution of sorghum sect. Sorghum (Gramineae). Am J Bot. 1978;65(4):477–84.

Article  Google Scholar 

Deu M, Hamon P, Chantereau J, Dufour P, D’Hont A, Lanaud C. Mitochondrial DNA diversity in wild and cultivated sorghum. Genome. 1995;38:635–45.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Diao X, Jia G. Origin and domestication of foxtail millet. Genet Genom Setaria. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45105-34.

Article  Google Scholar 

Dida MM, Wanyera N, Harrison Dunn ML, Bennetzen JL, Devos KM. Population structure and diversity in finger millet (Eleusine coracana) germplasm. Tropical Plant Biol. 2008;1(2):131–41.

Article  Google Scholar 

Doggett H, second ed. Longman, Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England; 1988. p. 512.

Doust A. Architectural evolution and its implications for domestication in grasses. Ann Bot. 2007;100:941–50.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Doust AN, Kellogg EA, Devos KM, Bennetzen JL. Foxtail millet: a sequence-driven grass model system. Plant Physiol. 2009;149:137–41.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Frachetti MD, Spengler RN, Fritz GJ, Mar’yashev AN. Earliest direct evidence for broomcorn millet and wheat in the Central Eurasian steppe region. Antiquity. 2010;84:993–1010.

Article  Google Scholar 

Fuller DQ, Stevens CJ. Sorghum domestication and diversification: a current archaeobotanical perspective. In: Mercuri A, D’Andrea A, Fornaciari R, Höhn A, editors. Plants and people in the African past. Cham: Springer; 2018. p. 427–52.

Chapter  Google Scholar 

Fuller DQ. African crops in prehistoric South Asia: a critical review. In: Neumann K, Butler A, Kahlheber S, editors. Food, fuel and fields: progress in African Archaeobotany. Africa Praehistorica 15 Heinrich-Barth Institute Cologne; 2003. p. 239–271.

Fuller DQ. Fifty years of archaeobotanical studies in India: laying a solid foundation. In: Korisettar R, Settar S, editors. Indian archaeology in retrospect; III: archaeology and interactive disciplines. New Delhi, Oxford: IBH; 2000. p. 317–90.

Google Scholar 

Giussani LM, Cota-Sánchez JH, Zuloaga FO, Kellogg EA. A molecular phylogeny of the grass subfamily Panicoideae (Poaceae) shows multiple origins of C4 photosynthesis. Am J Bot. 2001;88:1993–2012.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Greenway PJ. Origin of some East African food plants. East Afri Agric J. 1945;10:177–80.

Google Scholar 

Haaland R. A socio-economic perspective on the transition from gathering to cultivation and domestication: a case study of Sorghum in the Middle Nile Region. In: Pwiti G, Soper R, editors. Aspects of African archeology association of prehistory and related studies, University of Zimbabwe Publication Harare; 1996. p. 391–400.

Haaland R. The puzzle of the late emergence of the domesticated sorghum in the Nile Valley. In: Gosden Ch, Hather H, editors. The prehistory of food. Appetites for change. London; 1999. p. 397–418.

Harlan JR, Stemler ABL. The races of sorghum in Africa. In: Harlan JR, de Wet JMJ, Stemler ABL, editors. Origins of African plant domestication. Mouton Publishers. The Hague; 1976. p. 465–478.

Harlan JR. Indigenous African agriculture. In: Wesley Cowan C, Benco NL, Watson PJ, editors. The origins of agriculture: an international perspective. Washington, DC: Smithsonian; 1992. p. 59–70.

Google Scholar 

Hawkes J. The first great civilizations. Middlesex: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth; 1973.

Google Scholar 

Herman CF. Harappan Gujarat: the archeology-chronology connection. Paltorient. 1996;22:77–112.

Article  Google Scholar 

Hilu KW, De Wet JMJ. Domestication of Eleusine coracana. Eco Bot. 1976;30(3):199–208.

Article  Google Scholar 

Hilu KW, DeWet JMJ, Harlan JR. Archaeobotanical studies of Eleusine coracana ssp. coracana (finger millet). Am J Bot. 1979;66(3):330–3.

Article  Google Scholar 

Hunt HV, Vander L, Liu M, Matuzeviciute MG, Colledge S, Jones MK. Millets across Eurasia: chronology and context of early records of the genera Panicum and Seteria from archaeological sites in the old world. Veg Hist Archaeobot. 2008;17(4Suppl):5–18.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Joshi RP, Jain AK, Malhotra N and Kumari M. Origin, domestication and spread. In: Millets and pseudo cereals genetic resources and breeding advancements. Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition; 2021. p. 33–38.

Kajale MD. Ancient grains from excavations at Nevasa (1959–60). Maharashtra Geophytol. 1977;7:98–106.

Google Scholar 

Kajale MD. Current status of Indian paleoethnobotany: Introduced and indigenous food plants with a discussion of the historical and evolutionary development of Indian agriculture and agricultural systems in general. In: Renfrew JM, editor. New light on early farming. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; 1991. p. 155–89.

Google Scholar 

Kajale MD. On the botanical findings from excavations at Daimabad, a chalcolithic site in Western Maharashtra. India Curr Sci. 1977;46:818–9.

Google Scholar 

Kajale MD. Plant economy. In: Dhavalikar MK, Sankali HD, Ansari ZD, editors. Excavations at Inamgaon; 1988 I, ii:727–820.

Kimber CT. Origin of domesticated sorghum and its early diffusion to India and China. In: Smith CW, Frederiksen RA, editors. Sorghum: origin, history, technology and production. New York: Wiley; 2000. p. 3–98.

Google Scholar 

Krishna KR, Morrison KD. History of South Indian agriculture and agroecosystems. In: South Indian agroecosystems: nutrient dynamics and productivity. Brown Walker Press; 2009. p. 1–51.

Lata C, Gupta S, Prasad M. Foxtail millet: a model crop for genetic and genomic studies in bioenergy grasses. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology. 2013. Early Online: 1–16 © 2012 Informa Healthcare USA. https://doi.org/10.3109/07388551.2012.716809

Le Thierry DM, Pan Maud MO, Toupance B, Sarr A. Assessment of genetic relationships between Setaria italica and its wild relatives S. viridis using AFLP marker. Theor Appl Genet. 2000;100:1061–6.

Article  Google Scholar 

Li P, Brutnell TP. Setaria viridis and Setaria italica, model genetic systems for the panicoid grasses. J Exp Bot. 2011;62:3031–7.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Li Y, Wu SZ. Traditional maintenance and multiplication of foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv] landraces in China. Euphytica. 1996;87:33–8.

Article  Google Scholar 

Comments (0)

No login
gif