The increasing demand for lignocellulosic biomass for the production of biofuels provides
value to vegetative plant tissue and leads to a paradigm shift for optimizing plant architecture …

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is a major cereal grain crop grown throughout the
semi arid regions of the world. Depending on the region of production, the type of sorghum …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

Using AFLP technology and a recombinant inbred line population derived from the sorghum
cross of BTx623× IS3620C, a high-density genetic map of the sorghum genome was …

A comprehensive analysis was conducted using 48 sorghum QTL studies published from
1995 to 2010 to make information from historical sorghum QTL experiments available in a …

QTL for stem sugar-related and other agronomic traits were identified in a converted sweet
(R9188)× grain (R9403463-2-1) sorghum population. QTL analyses were conducted using …

The identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) affecting agronomically important traits
enable to understand their underlying genetic mechanisms and genetic basis of their …

Background Sorghum is a tropical C 4 cereal that recently adapted to temperate latitudes
and mechanized grain harvest through selection for dwarfism and photoperiod-insensitivity …

Sorghum is not a newcomer crop. World-wide, it is the fifth most important cereal crop, after
wheat rice, corn, and barley. Sorghum is unique in that is can grow in some of the harshest …

Major effect genes are often used for germplasm identification, for diversity analyses and as
selection targets in breeding. To date, only a few morphological characters have been …