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.
Planta publication describing SorghumBase
Gladman and colleagues describe SorghumBase, an open access community portal focused on sorghum genomic and genetic resources.
Chromosome-scale assembly of the sorghum Tx430 genome using Nanopore sequencing and DLS optical mapping
A new chromosome-scale assembly of the sorghum genome was generated by combining Nanopore sequencing with DLS optical mapping. In this paper, published in this week’s Nature Communications issue, Oxford Nanopore sequences generated on a MinION sequencer and combined them with
A New Reference Genome for Sweet Sorghum
Sweet sorghum was originally cultivated in the U.S. for the production of food-grade syrup or alcohol, and it still has commercial value as a source of these commodities, as well as an important bioenergy crop. Understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying
The Sorghum QTL Atlas: A powerful tool for trait dissection, comparative genomics and crop improvement
The Sorghum QTL Atlas is a research platform comprising data from over 150 QTL and GWAS studies for 223 unique traits classified into seven broad categories: leaf, maturity, panicle, abiotic resistance, biotic resistance, stem composition, and stem morphology. Data can be queried by trait, genomic or syntenic location, study, or various study details.