genus Eleusine

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genus Eleusine - annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands

liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed

family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane

Eleusine indica, yard grass, yardgrass, wire grass, goose grass - coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi - East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient

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There are nine species of genus Eleusine distributed in Asia, Africa and South America.

CLONING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AUXIN EFFLUX CARRIER GENES ECPIN1C AND ECPIN1D FROM FINGER MILLET ELEUSINECORACANA SUBSP. CORACANA

Finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] is among the most cultivated millets and belongs to the genus Eleusine, in the Chloridoidae subfamily (Clayton & Renvoze, 1986).

Effect of different sowing methods, nutrient management and seed priming on growth, yield attributing characters, yield and economics of finger millet (Eleucine coracana L.) at Bastar Plateau

coracana) of the genus Eleusine have been previously documented in the country (Jongbloed 2003; Karim and Fawzi, 2007).