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
 

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