Sorghum, also known as great millet, is a major cereal crop that feeds over 500 million
people in more than 100 countries, especially in Africa and Asia. It can grow well under …

Drought stress presents a considerable threat to the global crop production. As a dominant
source of vegetarian diet, cereals and grain-legumes remain crucial to meeting the growing …

Large ex situ collections require approaches for sampling manageable amounts of
germplasm for in-depth characterization and use. We present here a large diversity survey in …

Background Mungbean is an important economical crop in Asia. However, genomic
research has lagged behind other crop species due to the lack of polymorphic DNA markers …

Semi-dwarfing genes have contributed to enhanced lodging resistance, resulting in
increased crop productivity. In the history of grain sorghum breeding, the spontaneous …

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have been widely used in maize genetics and breeding,
because they are co-dominant, easy to score, and highly abundant. In this study, we used …

The sequencing and detailed comparative functional analysis of genomes of a number of
select botanical models open new doors into comparative genomics among the …

Heterosis helps increase the biomass of many crops; however, while models for its
mechanisms have been proposed, it is not yet fully understood. Here, we use a QTL analysis …

In recent years, sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) has gained attention as a food,
feed, and biofuel crop, but yield improvements have lagged behind those in other crops …

Sorghum accumulates sugars (sucrose, glucose and fructose) in the stem after anthesis. B
rix is commonly used to indicate total sugar content; however, the relationship between B rix …