Foxtail millet （Setaria italica L. Beauv.）, as a significant food and fodder cereal crop, was widely cultivated in the Yellow River Valley and is still a kind of farming tradition of millet in Northern China. With t...Foxtail millet （Setaria italica L. Beauv.）, as a significant food and fodder cereal crop, was widely cultivated in the Yellow River Valley and is still a kind of farming tradition of millet in Northern China. With the development of agriculture and the improvement of people＇s living standards, foxtail millet＇s planting area has be- come less and less in arid and semi-arid region now. However, because of its small diploid genome （1C genome size=420 Mb） and self-pollination, foxtail millet is very suitable for whole genome sequence and is used as an experimental model plant for C4 photosynthesis and biofuel research. In 2012, the completed genome sequence of foxtail millet had been successfully produced by the Beijing Genomics Institute （BGI） and US Department of Energy Joint Genomic Institute （JGI）, respec- tively. It will be used as an experimental crop to explore many aspects of plant ar- chitecture, physiology and biochemistry, comparative and functional genomics studies in the bioenergy grasses. To systematically understand the recent research progress in foxtail millet; we summarize the following aspects in this study： germplasm, tradi- tional breeding, physiology and biochemistry, molecular marker, construction of genet- ic linkage map, gene localization, genome sequencing and comparative genome. This may be a door to open for the further development of foxtail millet in the future.展开更多
基金Supported by Application Fundamental Research Program of Hebei Province(2011055402-2)National Key Technology Research and Development Program(2011BAD06B00)~~
文摘Foxtail millet （Setaria italica L. Beauv.）, as a significant food and fodder cereal crop, was widely cultivated in the Yellow River Valley and is still a kind of farming tradition of millet in Northern China. With the development of agriculture and the improvement of people＇s living standards, foxtail millet＇s planting area has be- come less and less in arid and semi-arid region now. However, because of its small diploid genome （1C genome size=420 Mb） and self-pollination, foxtail millet is very suitable for whole genome sequence and is used as an experimental model plant for C4 photosynthesis and biofuel research. In 2012, the completed genome sequence of foxtail millet had been successfully produced by the Beijing Genomics Institute （BGI） and US Department of Energy Joint Genomic Institute （JGI）, respec- tively. It will be used as an experimental crop to explore many aspects of plant ar- chitecture, physiology and biochemistry, comparative and functional genomics studies in the bioenergy grasses. To systematically understand the recent research progress in foxtail millet; we summarize the following aspects in this study： germplasm, tradi- tional breeding, physiology and biochemistry, molecular marker, construction of genet- ic linkage map, gene localization, genome sequencing and comparative genome. This may be a door to open for the further development of foxtail millet in the future.
