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  • Grassland areas are also degrading with the extensive spread of the unpalatable grass Eleusine jaegeri, and other weeds which compete aggressively with palatable grasses, especially the poisonous Mexican poppy Argemone mexicana which rapidly invades overgrazed land, crowding out both crops and the native plants which sustain the existing wildlife.

    Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania 2009

  • Millet Millet is the name used for a number of different grains, all of them with very small round seeds, 1–2 mm in diameter species of Panicum, Setaria, Pennisetum, Eleusine.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Millet Millet is the name used for a number of different grains, all of them with very small round seeds, 1–2 mm in diameter species of Panicum, Setaria, Pennisetum, Eleusine.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Finger millet, Eleusine coracana, a favourite for making porridge

    Chapter 6 1999

  • Varietal differences in puffing of ragi (Eleusine coracana) Journal of Food Science and Technology 18 (1): 30-32.

    Chapter 28 1996

  • The 'A' genome donor of Eleusine coracana (L) Gaertn.

    Chapter 28 1996

  • Finger millet derives from the wild diploid Eleusine africana.

    2. Finger Millet 1996

  • In parts of East and Central Africa (not to mention India), millions of people have lived off finger millet (Eleusine coracana) for centuries.

    Chapter 8 1996

  • Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is hardly "lost."

    2. Finger Millet 1996

  • Among wild Eleusine species are perennials that might lend some of their enduring characteristics to finger millet.

    2. Finger Millet 1996

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