Thank you, Gary, for this clarification. Taking the example of repatriating foxtail millet varieties in Taiwan, plus your two examples of reintroducing proso millet in Mongolia and Turkey, I'm seeing a broader role of the US in promoting millets, beyond the important and well-documented ones in research and agricultural development. We have already noted the latter in discussing North America's particular place in the global millets picture, during the International Year of Millets. Don DO, EL, MI, US NAMA On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 9:58 AM Gary Wietgrefe via Collab < collab@lists.millets2023.space> wrote:

Yes, the Taiwan repatriation does seem similar to reintroducing proso to Mongolia and Turkey, except I sent varieties developed by Nebraska, which may, or may not have had ancestral lines from early 20th-century Asia…..Gary Sent from my iPhone

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In a recent posting about browntop millet, I noted a mention of that millet's apparent shade tolerance.* This trait is not something I've seen discussed for any grain before - and my assumption was that one always grew grains in full sunlight.

Well, I have since come across this study of shade tolerance in foxtail millet, where it is grown in an agroforestry system with Chinese chestnut: Liu Dan, Cui Yanjiao, Zhao Zilong, Zhang Jing, Li Suying and Liu Zhengli. 2022. "Transcriptome analysis and mining of genes related to shade tolerance in foxtail millet (Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.)." Royal Society Open Science. 9:220953 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220953

Is this a trait that appears in millets other than browntop and foxtail?

Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance

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