By Sujay Rakshit, Yi-Hong Wang
This ebook presents insights into the present country of sorghum genomics. It quite specializes in the instruments and techniques hired in genome sequencing and research, private and non-private genomic assets and the way all this knowledge is resulting in direct results for plant breeders. the arrival of cheap entire genome sequencing together with latest cereal sensible genomics facts has enabled the leveraging of the numerous novel variety to be had in sorghum, the genome of which was once absolutely sequenced in 2009, offering an unequalled source for the genetic development of sorghum and different grass species. Cultivated grain sorghum is a nutrition and feed cereal crop tailored to scorching and dry climates, and is a staple for 500 million of the world’s poorest humans. Globally, sorghum can also be a massive resource of animal feed and forage, an rising biofuel crop and version for C4 grasses, really genetically advanced sugarcane.
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1961). Subsequently, several authors have discussed the systematics, origin, and evolution of sorghum since Linnaeus (de Wet and Huckabay 1967; de Wet and Harlan 1971; Dahlberg 2000). Sorghum is classified under the family Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae, subtribe Sorghinae, genus Sorghum Moench (Clayton and Renvoize 1986). Some authors further divided the genus into five subgenera: sorghum, chaetosorghum, heterosorghum, parasorghum, and stiposorghum (Garber 1950; Celarier 1959). Variation within these five subgenera except the subgenera sorghum has been described (Celarier 1959).
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As sorghum is grown on marginal land, the seed supply chain is largely poor in the majority of sorghum growing regions except India and China. This results in nonavailability of seeds of improved cultivars and repeated cultivation of less productive traditional cultivars or landraces. In some areas production is constrained by bird damage during the grain filling stage. To control this, bird scaring increases labor costs for farm operations. Another important factor throughout Asia and in urban areas of Africa is changing food habits and consumer preferences.