Finger millet

Abstract Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is a grass crop grown in Africa,... 

A, IB Rice 1 85 LG lAa and rice chromosome 5 are orthologous , a second nonsyntenic locus, Xrgc58.1 is duplicated on finger millet linkage groups IB and 6A... 

A,2B 2 long arm, 10 long arm Finger millet LG 10, which spans 16.5 cM four markers with homology to sequences on rice chromosome arm 2S... 

Babu et al. (1987) reported that, among six hybrid varieties of finger millet, nitrogen varied from 1.3 to 1.5 g/100 g and calcium from 293 to 390 mg/100 g. Barbeau and Hilu (1993) observed that protein ranged from 7.5% to 11.7%, calcium from 376 to 515 mg/100 g, and iron from 3.7 to 6.8 mg/ 100 g. All values were higher for E. africana than for E. coracana. 

Admassu et al. (2009) measured the proximate composition of six varieties of finger millet. The values ranged from 6.26 to 10.5 g/100 g for protein content and from 50 to more than 300 mg/100 g for calcium content. Iron varied from about 4.5 mg/100 g to more than 50 mg/100 g and phosphorus varied from less than 4 to about 147 mg/100 g. 

Hemalatha et al. (2007) using a simulated method showed that the availability of iron increased during germination of finger millet from 24.8% to 29.5% while that of zinc actually decreased from 3.9% to 2.4 % after 48 h of germination. They obtained similar results with green gram and chickpea. 

TABLE 6.2 Total polyphenol and tannin estimated in finger millet. (ND, not detectable)... 

Asharani et al. (2010) compared the antioxidant activity (measured as a-tocopherol units per gram) of methanolic extracts from different varieties of finger millet ( . coracana), little millet (P. sumatrense), foxtail millet (S. italica), and proso millet (P. miliaceum). Extracts from ragi averaged 15.3 0.6 while those of little millet, foxtail millet, and proso millet were 4.7 1.1,5.0 0.4, and 5.1 0.8, respectively. The total tocopherols in these millets were 4.1 0.2,1.3 0.2,1.2 0.008, and 3.6 0.1 mg/lOOg flour. 

FIGURE 6.7 SDS-PAGE of proteins extracted from teff and finger millet. Track a ... 

The propan-1-ol extracts also contained minor prolamin bands with Mrs of about 40.5,42.5 kDa in teff and 48.5 and 60.0 kDa in finger millet (Fig. 6.7, tracks e and i). 

C) sorghum, (D) coix, (E) teff, (F) finger millet (Shewry and Halford, 2003). Reproduced with permission from Prof. Shewry. 

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