Pearl millet

Genetic studies trace pearl millet domestication to the western Sahel of Africa by 2800 BCE from the wild P. glaucum subsp. monodii, with the earliest domestication traits dated to c. 2500 BCE in Mali. Grains from the lower Indus Valley (Sindh, Pakistan) dated 2578–2358 cal BCE show it reached South Asia at least five centuries earlier than previously thought.

Pearl millet (Poaceae), known as Pennisetum glaucum and treated in some taxonomic works as Cenchrus americanus, is a cultivated species grown for grain and forage, also called bulrush millet.