Sorghum grown under favorable conditions has high production potential. Photoassimilate production at the source (leaf) and transport to the sink (grain) are primary determinants of the yield. Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) for source-sink relationships is of interest to biologists
Crops Conference, June 13-16. Abstracts Due April 15
The Crops Conference is being held June 13-16 at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. The conference is focused on the application of genomic technology to crop improvement.
An improved high-resolution method for the in silico detection of EMS-induced mutations in sorghum mutant populations
Improved detection of point mutations in an EMS-mutagenized sorghum population by subtracting false negative variants.
AG2PI Funding Grants Prioritizing Cross-Community Groups Due in March
AG2PI, funded by the USDA, is offering grant opportunities for the agricultural G2P community.
Gene Expression affecting dhurrin production in domesticated Sorghum bicolor versus Australian wild Sorghum macrospermum
Ananda et al. identified genes key to dhurrin synthesis that were highly expressed in S. bicolor, opening up the opportunity to introgress traits from S. macrospermum into domesticated species to create acyanogenic, livestock safe sorghum lines.
Diversity in the Sorghum Pan-Genome Could Contribute to Crop Improvement
Tao et al, assembled 13 wild and domesticated sorghum genomes, performed a pan-genome analysis of 44,079 gene families, and identified widespread presence/absence variation within 64% of gene families.
Comparative Analysis of Deleterious Mutations in Sorghum versus Maize
Lozano et al. performed whole-genome resequencing to analyze approximately 13 million variants from 499 sorghum lines, compared the genetic variants with 25 million variants previously identified among 1,218 maize lines, and found that while maize analysis results were in line with the domestication-cost hypothesis, sorghum’s were not.
SICNA 2022
The 2022 Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America (SICNA) will be held on March 28-30 of 2022 in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Sorghum and Millet Crop Germplasm Committee (CGC) meeting at SICNA
The Sorghum and Millet CGC Meeting is being held on March 28th from 3:00-5:00 PM at Dallas, Texas.