Volume 54, Number 4, 907-911, DOI: 10.1007/s10722-007-9211-z

Foxtail millet ( Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.) in Mazandaran/Northern Iran

Karl Hammer and Korous Khoshbakht

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Abstract

Foxtail millet, Setaria italica is still cultivated in Mazandaran (N-Iran). It is used for the preparation of local food and for feeding cage-birds. The cultivated race is convar. moharia, formerly widely grown from Europe to SW Asia. The newly found material allows conclusion with respect to evolution and distribution of this old crop.

Keywords  Foxtail millet - Iran -  Setaria italica  - Underutilized crops

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