This review highlights recombinant DNA technology as a powerful tool to enhance the gene
pools of sorghum and pearl millet crops regarded as jewels of Africa. Although important …

Protein quality is defined related to the uses of the grain for breadmaking, malting or feeding.
Feeding quality, the subject of this review, is limited by the proportions of the limiting …

In the past decade, since the first edition was published, the study of cereal protein chemistry
has grown and changed. New separation techniques have been introduced while the …

The grasses known collectively as millets are a set of highly variable, small-seeded plant
species indigenous to many areas of the world (Table 1). They are well adapted to grow …

Mutation breeding has been introduced into modern plant breeding in the early 1940's. In
spite of pessimistic predictions, the application of experimental mutagenesis has led to …

The purpose of this study was to compare in vitro digestibility, protein distribution patterns,
and amino acid composition of pearl millet with other major cereals. Digestibility values for …

The subject matter of this book is comprehensively covered in 18 chapters. Following an
introductory chapter on pearl millet as a crop and research organism, chapters 2-17 are …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Materials. Six amaranth samples shown in Table I were used.
All of them originally came from Rodale Center in the United States but were grown, in 1984 …

Prolamin mixtures were isolated from oats, rice, normal and high-lysine sorghum, two
varieties of pearl millet, two strains of teosinte, and gamma grass and subjected to NH 2 …

Twelve corn genotypes, designated as: 12, 14, 22, 35, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 91, 113 and
Mugtama 45 were used in this study. Investigation showed that corn had 4.3–6.7% moisture …