Summary
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana) (2n = 4x = 36) remains one of the most important millets in East Africa (EA), where it was most likely domesticated along the highlands of Ethiopia and Uganda. The goal of the current study was to understand the population structure of the Ethiopian finger millet landraces and identify quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) and haplotypes associated with agronomic and nutritional traits. In a field evaluation across three environments, 448 genotypes were assessed for days to flowering (DTF), days to maturity (DTM), thousand seed weight (TSW), grain yield (GY), stay-green score (STG), and drought score (DrtSc). The harvested grain was analyzed for Fe and Zn contents. A subset of 391 genotypes was skim-sequenced, generating 24,112 high-quality
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