The association between nitrogen-fixing bacteria from the genus Azospirillum and the grasses Zea mays and Setaria italica was investigated in sterilized Leonard-jar assemblies. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria isolated from Cynodon dactylon roots in Israel and Azospirillum brasilense (Sp-7, Sp-80, and Cd) were examined. C(2)H(2) reduction activity was detected in systems containing 0.0 to 0.08 but not ...

Background: Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is the second-most widely planted species of millet. It known for its health benefits. Laddu are ball-shaped sweets popular in Indian Subcontinent. Laddus made flour, ghee and sugar with other ingredients that vary by recipe. They often served at festive or religious occasions. Hence, an attempt was to develop foxtail based value added laddu. Methods...

The urgent need for major gains in industrial crops productivity and in biofuel production from bioenergy grasses have reinforced attention on understanding C4 photosynthesis. Systems biology studies of C4 model plants may reveal important features of C4 metabolism. Here we chose foxtail millet (Setaria italica), as a C4 model plant and developed protocols to perform systems biology studies. As...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential element which plays several key roles in all living organisms. Setaria italica (foxtail millet) is a model species for panacoid grasses including several millet species widely grown in arid regions of Asia and Africa, and for the bioenergy crop switchgrass. The growth responses of S. italica to different levels of inorganic phosphate (Pi) and to colonisation with ...

The period from the late third millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD witnesses the first steps towards food globalization in which a significant number of important crops and animals, independently domesticated within China, India, Africa and West Asia, traversed Central Asia greatly increasing Eurasian agricultural diversity. This paper utilizes an archaeobotanical database (As...

inhibiting subtilisin BPN'. This paper describes purification and characterization of a subtilisin inhibitor (FMSI) from foxtail millet grain. Protein was measured by the method of Lowry et al.2) using bovine serum albumin as a standard. Protein concentrations of enzyme solutions were measured spectrophotometrically with extinction coefficients as described previously.3) The concentration of St...

Setaria viridis (green foxtail) is an important model plant for the study of C4 photosynthesis in panicoid grasses, and is fast emerging as a system of choice for the study of plant development, domestication, abiotic stress responses and evolution. Basic research findings in Setaria are expected to advance research not only in this species and its close relative S. italica (foxtail millet), bu...

Broomcorn and foxtail millet are the only major domesticated plants indigenous to prehistoric Eurasia rely on C4photosynthetic pathway. Here we study impact of animal manure (AM) broomcorn (Panicum miliaceum) (Setaria italica), grown in Askov Long-Term Experiment, using unmanured soil dressed with phosphorus plus potassium (PK) as reference treatments. Animal had a marked effect yields δ15N val...