Cadmium (Cd) contamination is considered as one of the most important environmental and human health issues worldwide. The occurrence Cd in air, water soil resulted from massive industrialization, uncontrolled agricultural system anthropogenic activities urban lives. presence threatens through food chain bioaccumulation, negatively affect quality also reduce productivity crops. Foxtail millet (...

Setaria viridis is an emerging model system for C4 grasses. It is closely related to the bioenergy feed stock switchgrass and the grain crop foxtail millet. Recently, the 510 Mb genome of foxtail millet, S. italica, has been sequenced (1,2) and a 25x coverage genome sequence of the weedy relative S. viridis is in progress. S. viridis has a number of characteristics that make it a potentially ex...