Alternative strategies for multi-stress tolerance and yield improvement in millets

M Numan, DD Serba, A Ligaba-Osena - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Millets are important cereal crops cultivated in arid and semiarid regions of the world,
particularly Africa and southeast Asia. Climate change has triggered multiple abiotic …

Potential horizon of brown-top millet cultivation in drylands: A review

S Maitra - Crop Research, 2020 - indianjournals.com
Millets are recently recognized as 'nutri-cereals' due to their superiority in terms of dietary
value to other cereals. India has the heritage to grow different kinds of millets since the …

On the verge of domestication: Early use of C4 plants in the Horn of Africa

A Ruiz-Giralt, L Nixon-Darcus… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The earliest evidence of agriculture in the Horn of Africa dates to the Pre-Aksumite period
(ca. 1600 BCE). Domesticated C3 cereals are considered to have been introduced from the …

Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world

T Ball, K Chandler-Ezell, R Dickau, N Duncan… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

The origins of specialized pottery and diverse alcohol fermentation techniques in Early Neolithic China

L Liu, J Wang, MJ Levin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
In China, pottery containers first appeared about 20000 cal. BP, and became diverse in form
during the Early Neolithic (9000–7000 cal. BP), signaling the emergence of functionally …

Microbotanical evidence of domestic cereals in Africa 7000 years ago

M Madella, JJ García-Granero, WA Out, P Ryan… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The study of plant exploitation and early use of cereals in Africa has seen over the years a
great input from charred and desiccated macrobotanical remains. This paper presents the …

Multistep food plant processing at Grotta Paglicci (Southern Italy) around 32,600 cal BP

M Mariotti Lippi, B Foggi, B Aranguren… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Residue analyses on a grinding tool recovered at Grotta Paglicci sublayer 23A [32,614±429
calibrated (cal) BP], Southern Italy, have demonstrated that early modern humans collected …

Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods

E Cristiani, A Radini… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Researchers agree that domesticated plants were introduced into southeast Europe from
southwest Asia as a part of a Neolithic “package,” which included domesticated animals and …

Dental calculus and isotopes provide direct evidence of fish and plant consumption in Mesolithic Mediterranean

E Cristiani, A Radini, D Borić, HK Robson, I Caricola… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
In this contribution we dismantle the perceived role of marine resources and plant foods in
the subsistence economy of Holocene foragers of the Central Mediterranean using a …

Between cereal agriculture and animal husbandry: millet in the early economy of the North Pontic region

M Dal Corso, G Pashkevych, D Filipović, X Liu… - Journal of World …, 2022 - Springer
Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) was first domesticated in China and dispersed
westward via Central Asia in the 3rd millennium BC, reaching Europe in the 2nd millennium …