Sorghum grain: From genotype, nutrition, and phenolic profile to its health benefits and food applications

Y Xiong, P Zhang, RD Warner… - … Reviews in Food …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, sorghum is one of the most important but least utilized staple crops. Sorghum grain
is a rich source of nutrients and health‐beneficial phenolic compounds. The phenolic profile …

Nutrients and bioactive compounds of Sorghum bicolor L. used to prepare functional foods: a review on the efficacy against different chronic disorders

W Khalid, A Ali, MS Arshad, F Afzal… - … Journal of Food …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is ranked five cereal crop worldwide. It belongs to the
Poaceae family and is formally part of plant-derived food. Nutritionally, it is composed of …

Convergent selection of a WD40 protein that enhances grain yield in maize and rice

W Chen, L Chen, X Zhang, N Yang, J Guo, M Wang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
A better understanding of the extent of convergent selection among crops could greatly
improve breeding programs. We found that the quantitative trait locus KRN2 in maize and its …

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.): Nutrients, bioactive compounds, and potential impact on human health

L de Morais Cardoso, SS Pinheiro… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Sorghum is the fifth most produced cereal in the world and is a source of nutrients and
bioactive compounds for the human diet. We summarize the recent findings concerning the …

Sorghum in foods: Functionality and potential in innovative products

A Khoddami, V Messina… - Critical reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Sorghum grain is a staple food for about 500 million people in 30 countries in Africa and
Asia. Despite this contribution to global food production, most of the world's sorghum grain …

Characterizing the volatile compounds of different sorghum cultivars by both GC-MS and HS-GC-IMS

X Fan, X Jiao, J Liu, M Jia, C Blanchard… - Food Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
The current study applied both GC-MS and GC-IMS for characterizing the volatile
compounds of six Australian sorghum cultivars. For raw sorghum, the result of GC-MS …

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 …

A bountiful harvest: genomic insights into crop domestication phenotypes

KM Olsen, JF Wendel - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Human selection during crop domestication has resulted in remarkable transformations of
plant phenotypes, providing a window into the genetic basis of morphological evolution …

OsTTG1, a WD40 repeat gene, regulates anthocyanin biosynthesis in rice

X Yang, J Wang, X Xia, Z Zhang, J He, B Nong… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anthocyanins play an important role in the growth of plants, and are beneficial to human
health. In plants, the MYB‐bHLH‐WD40 (MBW) complex activates the genes for anthocyanin …

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 …