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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Foxtail millet"”.
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Evaluation of Drought Tolerance and Forage Characteristics of Millet Cultivars
Millets are C4 annual grasses that are mainly used for food and feed. This thesis describes two studies that evaluated drought tolerance of pearl millet cultivars (Pennisetum glaucum [L.] R. Br) grown for grain. A third study is also included in the thesis that evaluated foxtail millet (Setaria …
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Botanical Resource Use in the Bronze and Iron Age of the Central Eurasian Mountain/Steppe Interface: Decision Making in Multiresource Pastoral Economies
… demonstrate that domesticated grains: broomcorn millet and compact free-threshing wheat) were present in the economy of the region as far back as the Late Bronze Age: 2200 cal B.C.). However, the role of these domesticates and the means of their acquisition are poorly understood. By the Late …
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Seeds of Struggle: A Political Ecology of Millet Growing in Aohan, China
… as a multi-sited ethnography centred on foxtail millet, the study spans three locations, capturing every moment of the seed and foxtail millet industry. My primary field site, Aohan in Inner Mongolia, China, is considered the centre of origin for foxtail millet. Tracing webs of relations, …
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Effects of Cover Crop Treatments on Apple Trees
… [Trifolium incarnatum]), 2) seasonal grasses (millet [Setaria italic] and annual rye [Lolium multiflorum]), or 3) unmanaged natural vegetation drive row plantings, with mowed vegetation blown into the tree row as mulch (mow/blow) nested variable. The legume crop cycles produced more than twice …
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Annual forage cropping-systems for midwestern ruminant livestock production
… brown mid-rib (BMR) sorghum sudangrass, pearl millet, foxtail millet, and tef. The second set of crops included C3 cool-season annuals sown in early August; these were oats, oilseed radish, and forage turnip. Crops were harvested and analyzed for yield, nitrogen, ash, and fiber content. Results …