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== Description == === Characteristics === Millets are small-grained, annual, warm-weather cereals belonging to the grass family. They are highly tolerant of drought and other extreme weather conditions and have a similar nutrient content to other major [[cereal]]s.<ref name="Fahad Bajwa Nazir Anjum 2017">{{cite journal |last1=Fahad |first1=Shah |last2=Bajwa |first2=Ali A. |last3=Nazir |first3=Usman |last4=Anjum |first4=Shakeel A. |last5=Farooq |first5=Ayesha |last6=Zohaib |first6=Ali |last7=Sadia |first7=Sehrish |last8=Nasim |first8=Wajid |last9=Adkins |first9=Steve |last10=Saud |first10=Shah |last11=Ihsan |first11=Muhammad Z. |last12=Alharby |first12=Hesham |last13=Wu |first13=Chao |last14=Wang |first14=Depeng |last15=Huang |first15=Jianliang |display-authors=5 |title=Crop Production under Drought and Heat Stress: Plant Responses and Management Options |journal=Frontiers in Plant Science |volume=8 |date=2017-06-29 |page=1147 |pmid=28706531 |pmc=5489704 |doi=10.3389/fpls.2017.01147 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Patan 2024">{{cite journal |last=Patan |first=Shaik Sha Valli Khan |last2=Vallepu |first2=Suneetha |last3=Shaik |first3=Khader Basha |last4=Shaik |first4=Naseem |last5=Adi Reddy |first5=Nanja Reddy Yellodu |last6=Terry |first6=Randall G. |last7=Sergeant |first7=Kjell |last8=Hausman |first8=Jean François |title=Drought resistance strategies in minor millets: a review |journal=Planta |volume=260 |issue=1 |date=2024 |issn=0032-0935 |doi=10.1007/s00425-024-04427-w |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00425-024-04427-w|url-access=subscription }}</ref> <gallery class=center mode=nolines widths="180" heights="180"> File:Finger millet 3 11-21-02.jpg|[[Eleusine coracana|Finger millet]] in the field File:Panicum miliaceum0.jpg|Ripe head of [[proso millet]] File:Millet In Kerala-3.jpg|[[Sprouting]] millet plants </gallery> === Taxonomic history === In 1753, [[Carl Linnaeus]] described [[foxtail millet]] as ''Panicum italicum''. In 1812, [[Palisot de Beauvois]] grouped several taxa into ''Setaria italica''.<ref name="House 1995"/> The genus ''[[Pennisetum]]'' was divided by [[Otto Stapf (botanist)|Otto Stapf]] in 1934<!--posthumous publication--> into the section ''penicillaria'', with 32 species including all the cultivated ones, and four other sections. In 1977, J. Brunken and colleagues classed the wild ''P. violaceum'' as part of the cultivated species ''P. glaucum'' (pearl millet).<ref name="House 1995">{{cite book |last=House |first=L. R. |chapter=Sorghum and millets: History, taxonomy, and distribution |editor=Dendy, David A.V. |title=Sorghum and Millets: Chemistry and Technology |year=1995 |publisher=American Association of Cereal Chemists |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |pages=1–9 |url=https://oar.icrisat.org/5486/1/Sorghum_&_Millets_Chemistry_and_Technology_1-9.pdf}}</ref> [[Finger millet]] was described as ''Eleusine coracana'' by [[Joseph Gaertner]] in 1788.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eleusine coracana (finger millet) |date=2019 |url=https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1079/cabicompendium.20674 |publisher=CABI |doi=10.1079/cabicompendium.20674 |access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref>
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