Energy Sorghum—a genetic model for the design of C4 grass bioenergy crops

J Mullet, D Morishige, R McCormick… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Sorghum is emerging as an excellent genetic model for the design of C4 grass bioenergy
crops. Annual energy Sorghum hybrids also serve as a source of biomass for bioenergy …

The Sorghum bicolor reference genome: improved assembly, gene annotations, a transcriptome atlas, and signatures of genome organization

RF McCormick, SK Truong, A Sreedasyam… - The Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sorghum bicolor is a drought tolerant C4 grass used for the production of grain, forage,
sugar, and lignocellulosic biomass and a genetic model for C4 grasses due to its relatively …

TASSEL-GBS: a high capacity genotyping by sequencing analysis pipeline

JC Glaubitz, TM Casstevens, F Lu, J Harriman… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Genotyping by sequencing (GBS) is a next generation sequencing based method that takes
advantage of reduced representation to enable high throughput genotyping of large …

A chromosome-scale assembly of the sorghum genome using nanopore sequencing and optical mapping

S Deschamps, Y Zhang, V Llaca, L Ye, A Sanyal… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing technologies have greatly facilitated assemblies of large eukaryotic
genomes. In this paper, Oxford Nanopore sequences generated on a MinION sequencer are …

Mapping QTLs and identification of genes associated with drought resistance in sorghum

KR Harris-Shultz, CM Hayes, JE Knoll - Sorghum: methods and protocols, 2019 - Springer
Water limits global agricultural production. Increases in global aridity, a growing human
population, and the depletion of aquifers will only increase the scarcity of water for …

3D sorghum reconstructions from depth images identify QTL regulating shoot architecture

RF McCormick, SK Truong, JE Mullet - Plant physiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Dissecting the genetic basis of complex traits is aided by frequent and nondestructive
measurements. Advances in range imaging technologies enable the rapid acquisition of …

Sorghum Dw2 Encodes a Protein Kinase Regulator of Stem Internode Length

JL Hilley, BD Weers, SK Truong, RF McCormick… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Sorghum is an important C4 grass crop grown for grain, forage, sugar, and bioenergy
production. While tall, late flowering landraces are commonly grown in Africa, short early …

Identification of Dw1, a Regulator of Sorghum Stem Internode Length

J Hilley, S Truong, S Olson, D Morishige, J Mullet - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Sorghum is an important C4 grain and grass crop used for food, feed, forage, sugar, and
biofuels. In its native Africa, sorghum landraces often grow to approximately 3–4 meters in …

Harnessing Genetic Variation in Leaf Angle to Increase Productivity of Sorghum bicolor

SK Truong, RF McCormick, WL Rooney, JE Mullet - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The efficiency with which a plant intercepts solar radiation is determined primarily by its
architecture. Understanding the genetic regulation of plant architecture and how changes in …

Sorghum Phytochrome B Inhibits Flowering in Long Days by Activating Expression of SbPRR37 and SbGHD7, Repressors of SbEHD1, SbCN8 and SbCN12

S Yang, RL Murphy, DT Morishige, PE Klein… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Light signaling by phytochrome B in long days inhibits flowering in sorghum by increasing
expression of the long day floral repressors PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR PROTEIN …