Table 1. List of 348 foxtail millet improved elite varieties collected from eleven provinces.

Code	Released administrative provinces	No. of breeding programs/institutes	No. of varieties
1	Beijing	4 (1) ※	8
2	Gansu	1 (1)	11
3	Hebei	7 (6)	78
4	Heilongjiang	7 (2)	50
5	Henan	2 (2)	19
6	Jilin	5 (2)	44
7	Liaoning	3 (2)	9
8	Inner Mongolia	4 (2)	45
9	Shandong	1 (1)	19
10	Shannxi	2 (2)	11
11	Shanxi	5 (4)	54

※The numbers outside the bracket indicate the numbers of breeding programs/institutes in the 1970s and 1980s, and that inside the bracket indicate the numbers of breeding programs/institutes currently conducted in China.