Thank you, Dipak, but no need to apologize. I'm just trying to make sure I have this right.

It seems to me that the "Echinochloa complex" lends itself to confusion. I recently saw a couple of instances where E. esculenta was called "billion dollar grass" - the moniker usually applied to E. frumentacea. One of those was a table in a USDA document at https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/plantmaterials/njpmctn12841.pdf . Since the term "Japanese millet" is sometimes used for E. frumentacea as well as E. esculenta, it is sometimes hard to know what one is talking about in this space.

I'm hoping to find a map(s) showing where these two cultivated barnyard millets are most cultivated - globally and in North America. I think that such a visual would help us all.

All the best,

Don

DO, EL, MI, US

NAMA

On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 11:32 PM Dipak Santra <dsantra2@unl.edu> wrote:

Don:

You are correct. The cultivated barnyard millet in India is Echinochloa frumentacea. My apology.

Thanks

Dipak

Dipak Santra, Ph.D.

Professor (Alternative Crops Breeding Specialist)

President, International Broomcorn Millet Association

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Panhandle Research & Extension Center

4502 Ave I, Scottsbluff, NE 69361

(308) 632-1244 (work) / (308) 765-2324 (cell)

From: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
Date: Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 7:51 AM
To: "collab@lists.millets2023.space" <collab@lists.millets2023.space>
Cc: Dipak Santra <dsantra2@unl.edu>, Gary Wietgrefe <gww374@gmail.com>
Subject: Japanese (barnyard) millet, etc. (Re: Collab Digest, Vol 30, Issue 11)

Echinochloa frumentacea,