Here's a sampling of recent items on various millets, including popular online press, open-access academic articles, and a short video. All are from 2024 and several recent, but for one from last year that I had missed:
MILLETS IN GENERAL "Different Types of Millets and Their Nutritional Benefits," *Naario*, 4 June 2024 https://www.naario.com/blogs/news/different-types-of-millets-and-their-nutritional-benefits (a nice overview with short takes on several millets plus facts and claims about millets in general; but buckwheat, however healthy it may be, is not a millet) "10 different types of millet and how to use them," by Hugo McCafferty, *Fine Dining Lovers*, 10 March 2023 https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/types-millet-how-use (another nice overview with short takes and images, in this case of 8 millets plus two of the pseudo-grains, amaranth and buckwheat) PROSO MILLET GENOMICS Wang, H., Wang, J., Chen, C. *et al.* "A complete reference genome of broomcorn millet." *Scientific Data* *11*, 657 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03489-5 (this article "reports the telomere-to-telomere (T2T) gap-free reference genome for broomcorn millet" which is seen as useful for genetic studies and plant breeding) PEARL MILLET (short video) "Pearl millet — making a great grain even better," video by Maxwell Suuk and Wolf Gebhardt, Deutsche Welle, 17 Sep. 2024 (6:02; discusses pearl millet's role in a northern Ghanaian village, with mention of new varieties) FOXTAIL MILLET (probably) & CONTINUOUS CROPPING Zhang, P., Xia, L., Sun, Y. et al. "Soil nutrients and enzyme activities based on millet continuous cropping obstacles." *Scientific Reports* 14, 17329 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68278-x (Analyzes the effect of continuous cropping of millet - probably foxtail - on soil quality. I had to dig in the references and Google the “Jingu 29” variety to determine which millet was the focus of the study - the editors of this journal should not have let this pass without edits to clarify up front.) MILLET MILK Pandey, Surabhi, and Anurag Singh, "Millet Milk: A Potential Cattle Milk Alternative—Extraction and Value Addition," *Journal of Food Quality*, 2024, 3964937, 13 pages. First published: 22 July 2024. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/3964937 ("This review discusses in detail the nutritional profile of millets along with the pretreatments to reduce the antinutritional factors in millets, followed by the extraction of millet milk. The comparative study of millet milk versus other plant-based milks has also been explored.") MILLETS' SHELF-LIFE Latha Ravi, Janani and Sandeep Singh Rana, "Maximizing the Nutritional Benefits and Prolonging the Shelf Life of Millets through Effective Processing Techniques: A Review," ACS Omega, 9(37), 30 Aug. 2024 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c03466 (review of diverse processes, treatments, and technologies for processing millets for maintaining quality over the time between harvest and consumer use. One of the issues addressed is rancidity.) If you come across interesting items about millets, please feel free to share on Collab. Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance
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