Science news articles about 'foxtail millet'

... Program at the HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, pointed out that foxtail millet has several advantages as a model. It's a compact ... months. Schmutz said that roughly 80 percent of the foxtail millet genome has been assembled using the tried-and-true ...

... newly published genetic sequence and map of foxtail millet, a close relative of switchgrass and an important food crop in Asia, is giving scientists working ...

... Populus trichocarpa and other plants in the sequencing queue, such as soybean, switchgrass, sorghum, eucalyptus, cassava, and foxtail millet. In addition, Rubin points to oil ...

... -till, organically managed onion production. Foxtail millet and cowpea were compared with a bare-ground ... or had comparable yield to cowpea as a monocrop." While foxtail millet can perform well as a cover crop ...

... to study more than 30 seedlings at the same time and can be expanded for use with plants used to make biofuels, such as Brachypodium and foxtail millet ...