MATERIALS AND METHODS The inbred line of pearl millet selected for analysis was one of 168 lines grown at the Purdue Agronomy Farm in the summer of 1975. It is designated as variety 52731 in the world collection. The whole seeds were finely ground and protein (Nx 6.25) was determined by the microKjeldahl procedure. Fractionation of the seed proteins was carried out according to the method of Landry and Mour-eaux (1970) as described indetail earlier (Misra et al., 1975). The individual fractions were obtained by extract-ing thefinely ground millet successively with 0.5 M NaCl (fraction I), 70% isopropyl alcohol (fraction II), 70% iso-propyl alcohol containing 2-mercaptoethanol (fraction III), borate buffer (pH 10) containing 2-mercaptoethanol (frac-tion IV), and borate buffer (pH 10) containing 2-mercaptoethanol and sodium dodecyl sulfate (fraction V). Amino acid analysis was conducted according to Spackman et al.(1958).