Wild sorghum as a promising resource for crop improvement

GKS Ananda, H Myrans, SL Norton… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is a multipurpose food crop which is ranked among the top five
cereal crops in the world, and is used as a source of food, fodder, feed, and fuel. The genus …

Sweet sorghum as biofuel feedstock: recent advances and available resources

S Mathur, AV Umakanth, VA Tonapi, R Sharma… - Biotechnology for …, 2017 - Springer
Sweet sorghum is a promising target for biofuel production. It is a C4 crop with low input
requirements and accumulates high levels of sugars in its stalks. However, large-scale …

Drought stress tolerance strategies revealed by RNA-Seq in two sorghum genotypes with contrasting WUE

A Fracasso, LM Trindade, S Amaducci - BMC Plant Biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Drought stress is the major environmental stress that affects plant growth and
productivity. It triggers a wide range of responses detectable at molecular, biochemical and …

A review of breeding objectives, genomic resources, and marker-assisted methods in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

T Assefa, A Assibi Mahama, AV Brown, EKS Cannon… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), one of the most important grain legume crops for
direct human consumption, faces many challenges as a crop. Domesticated from wild …

QTL for nodal root angle in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) co-locate with QTL for traits associated with drought adaptation

ES Mace, V Singh, EJ Van Oosterom… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2012 - Springer
Nodal root angle in sorghum influences vertical and horizontal root distribution in the soil
profile and is thus relevant to drought adaptation. In this study, we report for the first time on …

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 …

Large‐scale GWAS in sorghum reveals common genetic control of grain size among cereals

Y Tao, X Zhao, X Wang, A Hathorn… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Grain size is a key yield component of cereal crops and a major quality attribute. It is
determined by a genotype's genetic potential and its capacity to fill the grains. This study …

The Sorghum QTL Atlas: a powerful tool for trait dissection, comparative genomics and crop improvement

E Mace, D Innes, C Hunt, X Wang, Y Tao… - Theoretical and applied …, 2019 - Springer
Key message We describe the development and application of the Sorghum QTL Atlas, a
high-resolution, open-access research platform to facilitate candidate gene identification …

Genomics and bioinformatics resources for crop improvement

K Mochida, K Shinozaki - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Recent remarkable innovations in platforms for omics-based research and application
development provide crucial resources to promote research in model and applied plant …