Claim · model-written summary
Brown midrib pearl millet had higher digestibility than normal plants, 726 versus 659 g kg −1.
- Taxon
- pearl millet
Cenchrus americanust0 - Material
- bmr genotypee0
- Outcome
- IVDMDe0
- Direction
- higherinferrede0
- Value
- 726 g kg −1e0
- Comparator
- normal genotypee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“IVDMD was 726 g kg −1 for the bmr genotype compared to 659 g kg −1 for the normal genotype”
t0“pearl millet”
Title
Forage Quality Characterization of a Chemically Induced Brown‐Midrib Mutant in Pearl Millet
J. H. Cherney; J. D. Axtell; M. M. Hassen; et al. Crop Science 1988. doi:10.2135/cropsci1988.0011183x002800050012x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation A brown midrib phenotype appeared in one pearl millet plant.
- Observation Brown midrib pearl millet had lower lignin concentration than normal plants, 40 versus 50 g kg −1.
- Observation Pearl millet phenolic monomer differences resembled sorghum more than maize.
- Observation Brown midrib pearl millet was phenotypically similar to sorghum mutants.
- Recommendation The brown midrib trait has potential to improve forage pearl millet quality.