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and sorghum in tests of 24 climate-prediction and crop-suitability models. The best hedge against potential food shortages created by climate change?
Sally  Mackenzie, a plant biologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, contacted APHIS about the high-yield offspring of a transgenic sorghum grass plant
and ten percent of all the stored grains worldwide mainly corn wheat sorghum rice and beans. Until five years ago the main fumigation technique and pest control inside warehouses
#First look at complete sorghum genome may usher in new uses for food and fuelalthough sorghum lines underwent adaptation to be grown in temperate climates decades ago a University of Illinois researcher said he
and his team have completed the first comprehensive genomic analysis of the molecular changes behind that adaptation.
Patrick Brown an assistant professor in plant breeding and genetics said having a complete characterization of the locations (loci) affecting specific traits will speed up the adaptation of sorghum and other related grasses to new production
I hoping to use the sorghum findings as a launching pad for working with complex genomes of other feedstocks.
To adapt the drought-resistant tropical sorghum to temperate climates Brown explained that sorghum lines were converted over the years by selecting
The researchers used a new technique called genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) to map genetic differences in 1160 sorghum lines.
Part of the reason for caring about all of that now is that up to this point sorghum has mostly been grown for grain.
But now there is a lot of interest in using sorghum for other things such as growing sweet sorghum in areas where they grow sugarcane and growing biomass sorghum for bioenergy through combustion or cellulosic technology.
We'll basically be breed able to all these sorghum types more easily and use the genes that we bred for in grain sorghum over the last hundred years and move them into sweet sorghum and biomass sorghum.
We think that finding those genes is going to be said critical he. Even with this complete genetic map Brown said the research is still not at the end point.
Over here we've got exotic sorghum which hasn't been improved at all yet it's where most of the genetic diversity is.
or biomass sorghum researchers will need to bring in some of the genes from grain sorghum for traits like seed quality or early-season vigor.
Most of this sorghum now goes to chicken feed or ethanol in the United states. We do have a collaboration with Markus Pauly an EBI researcher at Berkeley who is looking at the composition of sorghum.
But the bigger problem with biomass sorghum right now is the moisture content of the biomass.
Unlike miscanthus or switchgrass where you can go in and harvest in February when it's pretty much bone dry and all the nitrogen has already been moved back down underground sorghum doesn't work that way Brown said.
Because biomass sorghum is grown annually growing until frost comes when it is harvested it has a high moisture content.
When we cut it down there's tons of biomass. I don't know that there's anything else that can match it in the area
For the existing cellulosic idea as it stands now that is not very useful he said That's one of the roadblocks to biomass sorghum right now he said.
Right now we're using sorghum as a model--maybe we can find sorghum genes that we can also tinker with in miscanthus
and improvements there are other value-added opportunities for sorghum grain. It's not quite as nutritious as corn
Another gene found shows that sorghum produces a huge amount of antioxidant in the outer layer of the grain.
The yield of sorghum hybrids with those traits aren't quite what they need to be yet.
hormone-free milk and natural syrups) with a precision and consistency wholly unattainable by humans.
and syrups imported from France. The Briggo mantra is that it's first and foremost a gourmet coffee company--not a technology or device company.
and ask for a touch more milk or another pump of syrup. When the machine is done,
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