broomcorn millet

See proso millet.

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broomcorn millet - extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage

hog millet, Panicum miliaceum

panic grass - any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder

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References in periodicals archive

Han, "Diversity and Cultivation of Broomcorn Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) in China: A Review," Economic Botany, vol.

Kinetics Investigation on Mushroom Tyrosinase Inhibition of Proso Millet

Proceedings of the 1st international sympoisium on broomcorn millet. Advances in broomcorn millet research, 25-31 August 2012.

Effect of water stress on seedling growth and photosynthetic characteristics in broomcorn millet. Acta Agronomica Sinica.

DROUGHT-INDUCED TRANSCRIPTION OF RESISTANT AND SENSITIVE COMMON MILLET VARIETIES

"Our data reveal a surprising beer recipe in which broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum), barley (Hordeum vulgare), Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi, a Chinese variant of pearl barley), and tubers were fermented together."

Stanford archaeologists uncover ancient brewery

The findings push back the dates of the two crops' first appearance in Central Asia, suggesting that the herders transported bread wheat from west to east and broomcorn millet from east to west.

An absence of broomcorn millet at nearby farming villages suggests that herders cultivated that crop, and perhaps others, about 600 years before previous evidence of farming in Central Asia.

Herders spread crops across Asia: pastoralists transported grain from two big farming centers

Proso, or broomcorn millet, and pearl millet (which is said to be easy to thresh) are the varieties most used for human consumption.

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