The life of the sorghum plant begins when the seed imbibes water. This starts a chain of chemical reactions that drives the growth and development of the plant, culminating in a panicle containing ...

When growers are asked which traits in sorghum need to be improved, standability is usually near the top of the list. There are currently several innovative studies going on in the United States and ...

Sorghum crops in sub-Saharan Africa suffer heavy losses from the parasitic plant witchweed (Striga hermonthica). A new study shows how soil microbes can help protect sorghum from this pest and could ...

ST. LOUIS – A five-year, $6.2 million project aims to identify and develop sorghum plants that better capture and store atmospheric carbon. The Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plant Initiative and Nadia ...

This award-winning image by Brandon James, Project Manager in the Swaminathan lab at the HudsonAlpha Institute, shows a thin slice of part of a Sorghum bicolor shoot apex. The fluorescent probes show ...

Sorghum is one of the world's oldest grains and possesses many traits that can benefit food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity. However, the mechanisms behind these traits have long ...

Brookhaven Lab biologist Meng Xie and postdoctoral fellow Dimiru Tadesse with sorghum plants like those used in this study. Note that these plants are flowering, unlike those the scientists engineered ...

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University agronomist has helped uncover the genetic mechanisms in sorghum plants that allow hybrids to perform better than parent varieties, a process known as heterosis.

The project will study how crops can reverse adverse impacts of climate change by capturing atmospheric carbon and storing it in the ground. The scientist currently is hiring for four roles in her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Workers shovel sorghum into a processing machine to make Chinese spirit baijiu at a brewery in Binzhou, Shandong By ...