Common name: Foxtail millet
Scientific name: Setaria italica
Chinese name: 谷子
Taxonomy
Angiosperms/Monocotyledoneae/Gramineae/Setaria/Setaria italica
Overview
Millet is a annual plant plant. Thick fibrous root. Culms stout, erect, 0.1-1 m tall or higher. Widely cultivated in temperate and tropical Eurasia, the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River in China is the main cultivation area, other areas have a small number of cultivation. Type Specimens are found in India.
Millet is a annual plant plant. Thick fibrous root. Culms stout, erect, 0.1-1 m tall or higher. Millet is not only for food, medicine has QINGRE, Qingke, Ziyin, spleen and kidney and stomach, urination, water diarrhea and other effects, but also wine. Its stems and leaves are excellent animal feed, it contains crude protein 5-7% , more than the general grass content of 1.5-2 times, and less cellulose, softer texture, for mules, horses like to eat; its bran is pigs, chickens and a good feed.
Genomic information
Choromsome number : 2n=2X=18
Protein coding genes : 35844
Genes assembled on chromosomes : 35591
Total genome size(Mb) : 441
Mapped sequence size(Mb) : 408
Number of scaffolds : 173
Scaffold n50(Mb) : 5.4
Data sources
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