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... KEY MESSAGE : Endogenous U6 promoters increase CRISPR/Cas9 editing efficiency in sorghum and may be useful for gene editing applications in other cereals. ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; genotype; ingredients; popcorn; seeds; sweets; Texas; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Interest has increased in pop sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) as an alternative to popcorn as an ingredient in snack foods and as a confectionary snack per se. However, studies on the effect of sorghum genotype, agronomic production and grain processing on popping quality are limited and this has hindered the development of sorghum hybrids specifically for popping. This study assessed the ef ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; Agrobacterium; abiotic stress; biotechnology; forage; transcriptome; transgenes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, the fifth most important cereal worldwide, is a multi‐use crop for feed, food, forage and fuel. To enhance the sorghum and other important crop plants, establishing gene function is essential for their improvement. For sorghum, identifying genes associated with its notable abiotic stress tolerances requires a detailed molecular understanding of the genes associated wit ...
Sorghumbicolor subsp. drummondii, etc ; Chernozems; air temperature; carbonates; vegetation; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Productivity of any crop is the potential of the variety when interacting with environmental factors, and especially meteorological ones. Losses due to unfavorable conditions in some years can be up to 50-65,0 %. The purpose of the work was to identify how the productivity of Sudan grass green mass varied through the years with different meteorological conditions, which factors had the greatest ef ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; Kalanchoe pinnata; liquid chromatography; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Introduction: Bryophyllum pinnatum is a plant with diverse ethnomedicinal claims yet to be verified scientifically. Objective: This work was aimed at evaluating the extract and vacuum liquid chromatographic (VLC) fractions of B. pinnatum on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and anti-proliferating seed radicle cells of Sorghum bicolor. Methods: The extract and VLC fractions of B. p ...
Sorghumbicolor subsp. drummondii, etc ; forage crops; grasslands; quantitative traits; regrowth; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) is an important annual forage crop. Multiple harvests per year not only increase the total yield of sorghum but also help to avoid its injury and damage by biotic and abiotic stresses. It is well known that S. bicolor subsp. drummondii, or sudangrass, regrows vigorously after cutting. To elucidate the genetic mechanisms underlying this ability, we evaluated re ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; alleles; dissection; drought tolerance; germplasm; leaves; quantitative traits; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The genetic architectures of agronomic and yield-related traits are expected to involve multiple loci that are unlikely all to segregate for alternative alleles in a single biparental population. Therefore, the identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) that are expressed in diverse genetic backgrounds of multiple bi-parental populations provides evidence about both background-specific and co ...
Cyril Diatta; Thierry Klanvi Tovignan; Eyanawa Atchozou Akata; Beatrice Elohor Ifie; Mame P. Sarr; César Bassene; Ousmane Aidara; Pierre Alfred Ndione; Malick Gackou; Anicet Georges Bruno Manga; Eric Yirenkyi Danquah; Samuel Kwame Offei; Ndiaga Cisse
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; biotechnology; farmers; genes; grain yield; heterosis; hybrids; males; Senegal; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Increasing sorghum production per unit area in the farmer’s field by developing high yielding tannin-free and grain mold tolerant varieties in Senegal is the goal of the present study. Line × tester mating design was used to cross eleven tannin-free non-photoperiodic male fertile sorghum varieties with two male-sterile A-lines to produce 22 F₁ hybrids. These hybrids along with the thirteen parents ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; Zea mays; genotype; grain sorghum; niche markets; popcorn; prediction; starch; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Growth in the niche market of popped grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] has increased the demand for grain sorghum lines or hybrids with improved popping quality. While there is a clear morphological difference in kernel morphology between popcorn [Zea mays L. everta] and most other types of corn, most grain sorghum genotypes have kernels with generally similar morphological structure. Th ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; antioxidant activity; human nutrition; humans; irradiation; phenol; response surface methodology; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Technologies such as UV-A radiation applied to sprouted sorghum can stimulate the synthesis or release of phenolic compounds. Since the optimal conditions for stimulating the formation of these compounds in sorghum sprouts are unknown, we used the response surface methodology to identify the optimal conditions of irradiation duration and intensity to obtain the highest free phenol content and anti ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; Melanaphis sacchari; genotype; insects; peptides; pests; phloem; proteome; proteomics; transcriptomics; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Sugarcane aphid (SCA; Melanaphis sacchari Zehntner) is a key piercing-sucking pest of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) that cause significant yield losses. While feeding on host plants, complex signaling networks are invoked from recognition of insect attack to induction of plant defenses. Consequently, these signaling networks lead to the production of insecticidal compounds or limited access of nutrien ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; Melanaphis sacchari; economic threshold; image analysis; insecticides; leaves; pests; sugarcane; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner), has caused significant yield loss across the sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) production region in the U.S. Adequate management of sugarcane aphid depends on pest monitoring and economic threshold levels to spray insecticides. However, scouting this pest under field conditions is time-consuming and inefficient. To assist pest monitoring, we propo ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; Japan; X-radiation; archaeology; equipment; fabrics; millets; rice; silica; uncertainty; China; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Cereal farming, such as rice and foxtail and broomcorn millets, originated in mainland China. When such farming was introduced to surrounding areas of East Asia remains an archaeological mystery because of scant data on carbonised grains from the initial farming stage. Even when data are sufficient, there remains uncertainty in whether the grains coincided with the accompanying pottery type. This ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; Melanaphis sacchari; data collection; entomology; integrated pest management; models; Oklahoma; Texas; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Airborne pests pose a major challenge in agriculture. Integrated pest management programs have been considered a viable response to this challenge, and pest forecasting can aid in strategic management decisions. Annually recurrent areawide sugarcane aphid [Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)] infestations of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Poales: Poaceae)] in the Great Pla ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; acyltransferases; alpha-glycerophosphoric acid; progeny; salt stress; salt tolerance; seedlings; stress tolerance; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Sorghum has high salt tolerance, and the localization and discovery of salt tolerance regulatory genes in sorghum is an effective way to develop and utilize saline soils. The aim of this study was to locate sorghum salt tolerance genes using a F₂ segregating population combined with bulked segregation analysis (BSA) sequencing technology to explore the salt tolerance potential of sorghum. The resu ...
Layla K. Mohamed; Mashair A. Sulieman; Abu ElGasim A. Yagoub; Mohammed A. Mohammed; Haya F. Alhuthayli; Isam A. Mohamed Ahmed; Salah A. Almaiman; Mohammed A. Alfawaz; Magdi A. Osman; Amro B. Hassan
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; antioxidant activity; cultivars; fermentation; fermented foods; flavonoids; gamma radiation; irradiation; sorghum flour; Show all 9 Subjects
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... This study investigated the chemical changes of phytochemicals and antioxidant activity during the preparation of traditional Sudanese asida prepared from gamma-radiated (1.0 and 2.0 kGy) flour of two sorghum cultivars (Tabat and Wad Ahmed). For both cultivars, the irradiation process significantly (p < 0.05) increased the total phenolic content and antioxidant activity of the raw flour, while it ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; dissection; domestication; genes; grain sorghum; haplotypes; juiciness; landraces; metagenomics; sweet sorghum; Africa; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Domestication and diversification have had profound effects on crop genomes. Originating in Africa and subsequently spreading to different continents, sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) has experienced multiple onsets of domestication and intensive breeding selection for various end uses. However, how these processes have shaped sorghum genomes is not fully understood. In the present study, population geno ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; biomechanics; genotype; geometry; hail; mechanical properties; models; pith; rain; tropical grasses; viscoelasticity; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.)] is a tropical grass that often suffers from structural failure (lodging) when subjected to wind, rain, and hail. During lodging, excessive lateral deflection occurs, which inherently correlates with the biomechanical properties of the stem. As such, a fundamental understanding of sorghum's biomechanical behavior is required to mitigate its propensity for lodging. Her ...
... The sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), is an exotic agricultural pest that feeds on sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) in the United States and Mexico. As with most invasive pests, it was introduced without its natural enemies. Coccinellids, commonly found in agricultural systems, are generalist predators of aphids. The lady beetle Coleomegilla maculata (Deg ...
Sorghumbicolor, etc ; edge effects; grain yield; gravimetric water content; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; rain; soil fertility; Zimbabwe; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is mainly cultivated in marginal areas of Zimbabwe, where soil fertility is poor and rainfall is low, erratic, and poorly distributed, leading to low yields. The study aimed to determine the effect of tied contour (TC) and in-contour infiltration pits (IP) rainwater harvesting (RWH) methods and varying nitrogen fertilizer application rates on the yield of two sorghum v ...