Sorghum bicolor
Overview
Cereals play a major role in the world’s food industry. Even though Sorghum itself is an important food crop, it’s especially interesting since it’s very closely related to maize and sugarcane. But as these two species had additional whole genome duplications their genomes are four times larger and are very hard to sequence due to the redundancy in the genome.
Unlike previously sequenced plants Sorghum also has “C4” photosynthesis; this is an adaptation of the standard
“C3”; photosynthesis, that assimilates carbon better at high temperatures.
Further reading:
Paterson, A.H. et al. The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses. Nature 457, 551-6 (2009). [pubmed]
Why Sequence Sorghum?
- Source
- JGI 1.4
- PLAZA identifier
- sbi
- NCBI link
- Sorghum bicolor
- Mitochondrion
- DQ984518
- Chloroplast
- EF115542
Toolbox
Various
- PLAZA download section
- Explore functional clusters
- Documentation data content
- View organism in the Genomeview or in the AnnoJ genome browser.
- View Sorghum bicolor specific or enriched gene families
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