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Millets comprise group of crops which can play a major role in achieving the goal of nutritional security through diversification of diets in spite that these are generally grown in marginal and infertile lands. Compared to major cereals, millets provide carbohydrates, protein, minerals, dietary fibre, vitamins and various functional molecules to the people residing in Asian and African subcontinents. Among the small-grained millets, foxtail and barnyard millets are of short duration, drought resistant and widely grown crops. The availability of genome-wide sequences in foxtail millet has shifted the pace towards development of different kind of markers and linkage mapping. In contrary, little or no genomic work has been done in barnyard millet. But using comparative genomics from available foxtail sequences, different markers and QTLs can be identified in barnyard millet also. This chapter also covers the interspecific hybridisation, barriers to interspecific hybridisation and conventional and contemporary approaches used for the development of interspecific hybridisation. Further, in foxtail and barnyard millets, genetic-based broadening is required for agronomic traits particularly yield-related traits, resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and nutritional traits.

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Kumar, S., Dikshit, N., Singh, M., Rana, J.C. (2016). Foxtail and Barnyard Millets. In: Singh, M., Kumar, S. (eds) Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Cereals. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3613-9_10

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