<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Pearl millet populations characterized by Fusarium prevalence, morphological traits, phenolic content, and antioxidant potential</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Bouajila</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Lamine</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">F Z</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Rahali</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">I</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Melki</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">G</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Prakash</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Ghorbel</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Background: Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) has become increasingly attractive due to its health benefits. It is grown as&#13;
food for human consumption and fodder for livestock in Africa and Asia. This study focused on five pearl millet populations&#13;
from different agro-ecological zones from Tunisia, and on characterization by morphological traits, total phenolic and flavonoid&#13;
content, antioxidant activity, and occurrence of Fusarium.&#13;
Results: Analysis of variance revealed highly significant differences between populations for the quantitative traits. The highest&#13;
grain weights occurred in the pearlmillet cultivated in Zaafrana and Gergis of Tunisia. Early flowering and earlymaturing populations&#13;
cultivated in the center (Zaafrana, Rejiche) and south (Gergis) of Tunisia tended to have a higher grain yield. The Zaafrana&#13;
population showed the highest value of green fodder potentiel (number andweight of leaves/cultivar and theweight of tillers and&#13;
total plant/cultivar) followed by Gergis and Rejiche. The Kelibia population showed the highest total phenolic and flavonoid content.&#13;
Rejiche exhibited the greatest antioxidant activity. Trans-cinnamic, protocatechuic, and hydroxybenzoic acids were the&#13;
major phenolic compounds in all the extracts. Three Fusarium species were identified in Tunisian pearl millet populations based&#13;
on morphologic and molecular characterization. Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium culmorum occurred most frequently. The&#13;
average incidence of the three Fusarium species was relatively low (&lt;5%) in all populations. The lowest infection rate (0.1%)&#13;
was recorded in the samples from Zaafrana.&#13;
Conclusion: Chemometric analysis confirmed the usefulness of the above traits for discrimination of pearl millet populations,&#13;
where a considerable variation according to geographical origin and bioclimatic conditions was observed.&#13;
© 2020 Society of Chemical Industry</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Pearl Millet</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2020-05</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Wiley</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>