Next-generation phenotyping: requirements and strategies for enhancing our understanding of genotype–phenotype relationships and its relevance to crop …

JN Cobb, G DeClerck, A Greenberg, R Clark… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2013 - Springer
More accurate and precise phenotyping strategies are necessary to empower high-
resolution linkage mapping and genome-wide association studies and for training genomic …

Status and prospects of association mapping in plants

C Zhu, M Gore, ES Buckler, J Yu - The plant genome, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
There is tremendous interest in using association mapping to identify genes responsible for
quantitative variation of complex traits with agricultural and evolutionary importance. Recent …

Population genomic and genome-wide association studies of agroclimatic traits in sorghum

GP Morris, P Ramu, SP Deshpande… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Accelerating crop improvement in sorghum, a staple food for people in semiarid regions
across the developing world, is key to ensuring global food security in the context of climate …

Parallel domestication of the Shattering1 genes in cereals

Z Lin, X Li, LM Shannon, CT Yeh, ML Wang, G Bai… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
A key step during crop domestication is the loss of seed shattering. Here, we show that seed
shattering in sorghum is controlled by a single gene, Shattering1 (Sh1), which encodes a …

Genome wide association study reveals plant loci controlling heritability of the rhizosphere microbiome

S Deng, DF Caddell, G Xu, L Dahlen… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Host genetics has recently been shown to be a driver of plant microbiome composition.
However, identifying the underlying genetic loci controlling microbial selection remains …

High‐throughput micro plate assays for screening flavonoid content and DPPH‐scavenging activity in sorghum bran and flour

TJ Herald, P Gadgil, M Tilley - Journal of the Science of Food …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Sorghum possesses phenolic compounds that are health‐promoting
constituents of the grain. There are approximately 40 000 sorghum accessions, many of …

Genome-environment associations in sorghum landraces predict adaptive traits

JR Lasky, HD Upadhyaya, P Ramu, S Deshpande… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Improving environmental adaptation in crops is essential for food security under global
change, but phenotyping adaptive traits remains a major bottleneck. If associations between …

Sorghum breeding in the genomic era: opportunities and challenges

H Hao, Z Li, C Leng, C Lu, H Luo, Y Liu, X Wu… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message The importance and potential of the multi-purpose crop sorghum in global
food security have not yet been fully exploited, and the integration of the state-of-art …

Increased power to dissect adaptive traits in global sorghum diversity using a nested association mapping population

S Bouchet, MO Olatoye, SR Marla, R Perumal… - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In crop species, adaptation to different agroclimatic regions creates useful variation but also
leads to unwanted genetic correlations. Bouchet....... Adaptation of domesticated species to …

Genetic and genomic resources of sorghum to connect genotype with phenotype in contrasting environments

RE Boyles, ZW Brenton, S Kresovich - The Plant Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the recent development of genomic resources and high‐throughput phenotyping
platforms, the 21st century is primed for major breakthroughs in the discovery …