Description

Pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, commonly known as the synonym Pennisetum glaucum) is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa and the Indian subcontinent since prehistoric times. The center of diversity, and suggested area of domestication, for the crop is in the Sahel zone of West Africa. Recent archaeobotanical research has confirmed the presence of domesticated pearl millet on the Sahel zone of northern Mali between 2500 and 2000 BC. 2023 was the International Year of Millets, declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 2021.

Whole Genomes

Whole Genome Sequences & Annotations for Cenchrus americanus

• Cenchrus americanus 843

S genes

Cenchrus americanus 843 S genes

Query

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Downloads

The Cenchrus americanus S gene sequences are available in FASTA format.

CDS and Protein (FASTA file)

S-gene_Cenchrus_americanus

Publications

Ramu P, Srivastava RK, Sanyal A, Fengler K, Cao J, Zhang Y, Nimkar M, Gerke J, Shreedharan S, Llaca V, May G, Peterson-Burch B, Lin H, King M, Das S, Bhupesh V, Mandaokar A, Maruthachalam K, Krishnamurthy P, Gandhi H, Rathore A, Gupta R, Chitikineni A, Bajaj P, Gupta SK, Satyavathi CT, Pandravada A, Varshney RK, Babu R. Improved pearl millet genomes representing the global heterotic pool offer a framework for molecular breeding applications. Commun Biol. 2023 Sep 4;6(1):902. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05258-3.

Varshney RK, Shi C, Thudi M, Mariac C, Wallace J, Qi P, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Wang X, Rathore A, Srivastava RK, Chitikineni A, Fan G, Bajaj P, Punnuri S, Gupta SK, Wang H, Jiang Y, Couderc M, Katta MAVSK, Paudel DR, Mungra KD, Chen W, Harris-Shultz KR, Garg V, Desai N, Doddamani D, Kane NA, Conner JA, Ghatak A, Chaturvedi P, Subramaniam S, Yadav OP, Berthouly-Salazar C, Hamidou F, Wang J, Liang X, Clotault J, Upadhyaya HD, Cubry P, Rhoné B, Gueye MC, Sunkar R, Dupuy C, Sparvoli F, Cheng S, Mahala RS, Singh B, Yadav RS, Lyons E, Datta SK, Hash CT, Devos KM, Buckler E, Bennetzen JL, Paterson AH, Ozias-Akins P, Grando S, Wang J, Mohapatra T, Weckwerth W, Reif JC, Liu X, Vigouroux Y, Xu X. Pearl millet genome sequence provides a resource to improve agronomic traits in arid environments. Nat Biotechnol. 2017 Oct;35(10):969-976. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3943.

Yan H, Sun M, Zhang Z, Jin Y, Zhang A, Lin C, Wu B, He M, Xu B, Wang J, Qin P, Mendieta JP, Nie G, Wang J, Jones CS, Feng G, Srivastava RK, Zhang X, Bombarely A, Luo D, Jin L, Peng Y, Wang X, Ji Y, Tian S, Huang L. Pangenomic analysis identifies structural variation associated with heat tolerance in pearl millet. Nat Genet. 2023 Mar;55(3):507-518. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01302-4.

Salson M, Orjuela J, Mariac C, Zekraouï L, Couderc M, Arribat S, Rodde N, Faye A, Kane NA, Tranchant-Dubreuil C, Vigouroux Y, Berthouly-Salazar C. An improved assembly of the pearl millet reference genome using Oxford Nanopore long reads and optical mapping. G3 (Bethesda). 2023 May 2;13(5):jkad051. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad051.