Image Credit:
Larry Rana, USDA - United States Department of Agriculture, Image Number: 94cs2601, CD0461-69
Scientific name: Sorghum bicolor
Common name(s): Sorghum
Name as shown in Phylogenes: Sorghum
Ploidy: Diploid
Description:
Sorghum bicolor, commonly known as sorghum, is a cereal relative of maize and rice. It is one of the top five cereal crops world wide and grown for grain, forage and as a sweet crop. It is native to Africa and quite drought tolerant.
Because it produces copious amounts of sugars, it is a major biofuel crop. The sorghum genome is used in comparative genomics studies especially for close relatives such as maize, which has a more complex and repetitive genome.
Reference(s):
Paterson AH, Bowers JE, Bruggmann R, Dubchak I, Grimwood J, Gundlach H, Haberer G, et al. The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses. Nature. 2009 Jan 29;457(7229):551-6. doi: 10.1038/nature07723.
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