Panicum miliaceum
(millet)

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Identity

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Preferred Scientific Name

• Panicum miliaceum L. (1753)

Preferred Common Name

• millet

Other Scientific Names

• Panicum miliaceum subsp. miliaceum L. sensu Tsvelev (1968)

International Common Names

• English: brown-corn millet; common millet; French millet; grand millet; millet panic (grass); proso millet; Russian millet; wild proso millet
• Spanish: mijo comun
• French: millet commun; millet des oiseaux
• Portuguese: milho-miudo

Local Common Names

• Germany: Echte Hirse; Echte Rispenhirse; Rispen- Hirse
• Indonesia: sekoi sejati
• Italy: miglio nostrale
• Netherlands: Pluimgierst
• Philippines: kabug
• Sweden: aekta hirs
• Vietnam: kee cor kee

EPPO code

• PANMI (Panicum miliaceum)

Taxonomic Tree

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• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Monocotyledonae
•                     Order: Cyperales
•                         Family: Poaceae
•                             Genus: Panicum
•                                 Species: Panicum miliaceum

List of Pests

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Major host of:

Alternanthera sessilis (sessile joyweed); Amaranthus retroflexus (redroot pigweed); Atherigona miliaceae; Barley yellow striate mosaic virus; Cadra cautella (dried currant moth); Caulophilus oryzae (broad nosed grain weevil); Chilo orichalcociliellus (coastal stalk borer); Cirsium arvense (creeping thistle); Corchorus aestuans (east Indian jew's-mallow (USA)); Corcyra cephalonica (rice meal moth); Dociostaurus maroccanus (Moroccan locust); Haplothrips aculeatus (grass thrips); Hieroglyphus banian (rice grasshopper); Hyoscyamus niger (black henbane); Locusta migratoria (migratory locust); Marasmia trapezalis (maize webworm); Mythimna separata (paddy armyworm); Mythimna unipuncta (rice armyworm); Oryzaephilus surinamensis (saw toothed grain beetle); Oxya chinensis (rice grasshopper); Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (bacterial canker or blast (stone and pome fruits)); Quelea quelea (weaver bird); Sesamia inferens (purple stem borer); Sipha flava (yellow sugarcane aphid); Spodoptera exempta (black armyworm); Trogoderma granarium (khapra beetle); Xanthomonas vasicola pv. holcicola (streaky spot of sorghum and Sudan grass)

Minor host of:

Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae (bacterial leaf blight); Acrida cinerea; Amaranthus spinosus (spiny amaranth); Barley virus G; Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (rice leaf folder); Dactyloctenium aegyptium (crowfoot grass); Gibberella coronicola; Gibberella zeae (headblight of maize); Helicoverpa zea (American cotton bollworm); Leptocorisa acuta (rice seed bug); Maize dwarf mosaic virus (dwarf mosaic of maize); Maize yellow mosaic virus; Melanitis leda ismene (rice butterfly); Meloidogyne graminicola (rice root knot nematode); Moesziomyces bullatus (pearl millet smut); Ostrinia furnacalis (Asian corn borer); Papaver rhoeas (common poppy); Polymyxa graminis (vector of streak mosaic: wheat); Rice black-streaked dwarf virus; Rice stripe virus (rice stripe tenuivirus); Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm); Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle)

Wild host of:

Atherigona soccata (sorghum stem fly); Barley yellow dwarf viruses (barley yellow dwarf); Chilo suppressalis (striped rice stem borer); Sarocladium oryzae (rice sheath rot); Sclerospora graminicola (downy mildew of pearl millet); Setosphaeria turcica (maize leaf blight); Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vasculorum (sugarcane gumming disease)

Host of (source - data mining):

Atherigona pulla; Atherigona punctata; Drechslera biseptata; Meromyza americana (wheat stem maggot); Passalora fusimaculans; Sesamia cretica (greater sugarcane borer); Spilarctia obliqua (common hairy caterpillar)

Uses List

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Animal feed, fodder, forage

• Fodder/animal feed

Human food and beverage

• Cereal
• Flour/starch

Medicinal, pharmaceutical

• Traditional/folklore