National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Millets, a powerhouse of nutrients, hold great potential in contributing substantially to food and nutritional security of the developing country. They are climate resilient crops and due to their unique nutritional characteristics, they contribute significantly in increasing demand for nutritious food and feed. Recently the government has renamed jowar, bajra, ragi and other millets as “Nutri Cereals”, instead of “coarse cereals”. These Nutri Cereals includes Sorghum (Jowar), Pearl Millet (Bajra), Finger Millet (Ragi/Mandua), Minor Millets: Foxtail Millet (Kangani/Kakun), Proso Millet (Cheena), Kodo Millet (Kodo), Barnyard Millet (Sawa/Sanwa/ Jhangora), Little Millet (Kutki) and two Pseudo Millets (Black-wheat (Kuttu) and Ameranthus (Chaulai) which have high nutritive value for production, consumption and trade point of view. Among millets, the sequencing of whole genomes of two millets sorghum and foxtail millet has been done. It will speed up the genomic selection of better performing millets by marker assisted breeding, QTL mapping, gene tagging etc. Marker assisted breeding can be speed up by doing multiplexed genotyping, next generation sequencing and targeted resequencing. Advance genomic tools can be applied in minor millets for analysis of germplasm resources, allele mining, QTL mapping, fine mapping, gene tagging, foreground and background selection, genome wide marker trait association for further improvement of millets. Thus detail analysis on all omics information i.e., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics could promote millets as model systems for biofortification of staple crops and enhance targeted nutritional values.
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