Nutraceutical Value of Finger Millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.], and Their Improvement Using Omics Approaches

A Kumar, M Metwal, S Kaur, AK Gupta… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The science of nutritional biology has progressed extensively over the last decade to
develop food-based nutraceuticals as a form of highly personalized medicine or therapeutic …

Biofortification in millets: a sustainable approach for nutritional security

A Vinoth, R Ravindhran - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Nutritional insecurity is a major threat to the world's population that is highly dependent on
cereals-based diet, deficient in micronutrients. Next to cereals, millets are the primary …

Genetic and genomic resources of small millets

D Saha, MVC Gowda, L Arya, M Verma… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Small millets are very promising agricultural entity to ensure global food security. They
gained remarkable importance in agriculture due to their resilience to climatic changes and …

Calcium Biofortification: Three Pronged Molecular Approaches for Dissecting Complex Trait of Calcium Nutrition in Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana) for Devising …

D Sharma, G Jamra, UM Singh, S Sood… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Calcium is an essential macronutrient for plants and animals and plays an indispensable
role in structure and signaling. Low dietary intake of calcium in humans has been …

Gene Discovery and Advances in Finger Millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] Genomics—An Important Nutri-Cereal of Future

S Sood, A Kumar, BK Babu, VS Gaur… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The rapid strides in molecular marker technologies followed by genomics, and next
generation sequencing advancements in three major crops (rice, maize and wheat) of the …

Harnessing finger millet to combat calcium deficiency in humans: challenges and prospects

S Puranik, J Kam, PP Sahu, R Yadav… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Humans require more than 20 mineral elements for healthy body function. Calcium (Ca),
one of the essential macromineral, is required in relatively large quantities in the diet for …

Comparative genomics and association mapping approaches for blast resistant genes in finger millet using SSRs

BK Babu, P Dinesh, PK Agrawal, S Sood… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The major limiting factor for production and productivity of finger millet crop is blast disease
caused by Magnaporthe grisea. Since, the genome sequence information available in finger …

Genotyping‐by‐sequencing analysis for determining population structure of finger millet germplasm of diverse origins

A Kumar, D Sharma, A Tiwari, JP Jaiswal… - The plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] is grown mainly by subsistence farmers in arid
and semiarid regions of the world. To broaden its genetic base and to boost its production, it …

Variation in the nutrient content of different genotypes and varieties of millets, studied globally: a systematic review

S Anitha, A Rajendran, R Botha, C Baruah… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This study was conducted to understand the variation in the nutrient contents of different
types of millets by collecting data from published scientific journals and collating it by variety …

De Novo Assembly and Characterization of Developing Spikes Transcriptome of Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana): a Minor Crop Having Nutraceutical Properties

A Kumar, VS Gaur, A Goel, AK Gupta - Plant molecular biology reporter, 2015 - Springer
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana), a minor crop, is a rich source of micronutrients especially
calcium and protein. In the present study, developing spikes transcriptome of two finger …