Perennials as future grain crops: opportunities and challenges

EA Chapman, HC Thomsen, S Tulloch… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Perennial grain crops could make a valuable addition to sustainable agriculture, potentially
even as an alternative to their annual counterparts. The ability of perennials to grow year …

Whole-genome resequencing of Sorghum bicolor and S. bicolor × S. halepense lines provides new insights for improving plant agroecological characteristics

E Habyarimana, S Gorthy, FS Baloch, S Ercisli… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.(Moench)) is the world's fifth economically most
important cereal and is a staple particularly in the semi-arid tropics of Africa and Asia …

Unraveling the genetic components of perenniality: Toward breeding for perennial grains

WQ Kong, P Nabukalu, S Cox, R Johnston… - Plants, People …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Social Impact Statement Although tremendously successful at feeding humanity, row crop
agriculture based on annuals contributes to numerous ecosystem dis‐services, ranging from …

Construction of high density genetic map and quantitative trait locus mapping in a sorghum Tx623A× sudangrass S722 population

W Tu, L Wang, P Jin, R Meng, J Zheng, Y Liu… - Grassland …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sorghum–sudanense is a hybrid of sorghum and Sudanese grass and is widely used in
animal husbandry and aquaculture because of its high yield, excellent quality and wide …

Comparative evolution of vegetative branching in sorghum

WQ Kong, P Nabukalu, TS Cox, V Goff, JS Robertson… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Tillering and secondary branching are two plastic traits with high agronomic importance,
especially in terms of the ability of plants to adapt to changing environments. We describe a …

Genetic variation underlying kernel size, shape, and color in two interspecific S. bicolor2 × S. halepense subpopulations

P Nabukalu, W Kong, TS Cox, GJ Pierce… - Genetic Resources and …, 2021 - Springer
Throughout the history of sorghum domestication, kernel traits have been subject to
extensive selection. Breeding of grain sorghum is highly dependent on kernel morphology …

Construction of high density genetic map and QTL mapping in a sorghum Tx623A× sudangrass S722 population

W Tu, L Wang, P Jin, R Meng, J Zheng, Y Liu, YH Wang… - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Sorghum-sudanense is a hybrid of sorghum and Sudanese grass and is widely used in
animal husbandry and aquaculture because of its high yield, excellent quality and wide …