Common name: Broomcorn millet
Scientific name: Panicum miliaceum
Chinese name: 糜子
Taxonomy
Angiosperms/Monocotyledoneae/Gramineae/Panicum/Panicum miliaceum
Overview
Panicum miliaceum, native to the north of China, is an ancient grain and brewing crop. It has been cultivated for more than 3,000 years. It is widely distributed in arid areas of north China, such as Hebei, Shanxi, North Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, and north-east China.
Panicum miliaceum is a promising annual forage grass and forage crop with high adaptability, especially in saline-alkali soil areas. Its grass quality is soft, the leaf quantity is rich, palatability is good, the horse, the cow, the sheep likes to eat, especially the horse most likes to eat. When the stems and leaves are green, they can be mowed for forage. After maturity, the culms become hard, coarser and less palatability. But the autumn can be harvested as winter forage, its seeds can be used as fine, feed, in addition, the stalk can be made paper, the seeds can also be used as medicine, beneficial Qi and in, appropriate spleen, stomach role.
Genomic information
Choromsome number : 2n=4X=36
Protein coding genes : 86387
Genes assembled on chromosomes : 85636
Total genome size(Mb) : 855
Mapped sequence size(Mb) : 822
Number of scaffolds : 1309
Scaffold n50(Mb) : 46.6
Data sources
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