OBJECTIVES Compare glycaemic response of foods prepared with finger millet flour, using traditional stone grinding and industrial milling. DESIGN Crossover study. PARTICIPANTS Healthy volunteers (n=11) consisting of five males and six females), aged between 20 and 30 years, with a body mass index of 18.5-23.5 Kgm-2. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Blood glucose concentration was measured at fasting...

Many plant pathogens inject type III (T3SS) effectors into host cells to suppress host immunity and promote successful infection. The bacterial pathogen Acidovorax avenae causes brown stripe symptom in many species of monocotyledonous plants; however, individual strains of each pathogen infect only one host species. T3SS-deleted mutants of A. avenae K1 (virulent to rice) or N1141 (virulent to f...

We evaluated the genetic variation and population structure in Indian and non-Indian genotypes of finger millet using 87 genomic SSR primers. The 128 finger millet genotypes were collected and genomic DNA was isolated. Eighty-seven genomic SSR primers with 60-70 % GC contents were used for PCR analysis of 128 finger millet genotypes. The PCR products were separated and visualized on a 6 % polya...

Phosphorus (P) is a vital nutrient for plant growth and development, and is absorbed in cells with the help of membrane-spanning inorganic phosphate transporter (Pht) protein. Symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) also helps in transporting P from the soil to plant and Pht proteins play an important role in it. To understand this phenomenon in Finger Mille plant, we have cloned four Pht gen...

The knowledge of floral structure, biology and pollination behavior are pre-requisite for understanding the system its manipulation developing a proper crossing in which is largely lacking small millets. variability structure was studied various finger millet genotypes. inflorescence consisted cluster variable number spikes called fingers. Each has two opposite rows spikelets. A spiklete contai...

Finger millet is extensively cultivated in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of Africa known to save lives small income farmers from starvation at times extreme drought. Therefore, this field experiment was carried out study integrated effect vermicompost inorganic fertilizer blended NPSB with urea on yield components finger millet. Treatments consisted four levels (25, 50, 75, 100%) three ...

Sustainable agricultural practices supporting food diversification and value addition of underutilized crops can support global security nutrition. Rediscovered ancient seed grains flours (barnyard millet, finger little sorghum) are emerging as sustainable alternatives due to high nutritional content climate resilience. The physical functional properties varied significantly (p < 0.05) among in...