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\nDoubling sorghum yields may now seem a pipe dream, but recent genetic research may make that goal a reality.\u00a0 And reasonably soon as well.<\/span>
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\nThis is especially relevant in tropical regions where achieving high sorghum yields is constrained by less suitable varieties as well as weather conditions.<\/span>
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\nSee below for a recent USDA publicity announcement.<\/span>
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\nCertainly seems promising.<\/span>
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\nIf combined with genetic work that prolongs production and grain fill during senesence it seems sorghum could get a big yield boost.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nUS<\/span><\/strong>DA-ARS and Cold<\/span> <\/span>Spring Harbor Laboratory Research Probe Ways to Increase Yields of Sorghum\u2014and Other Crops<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nScientists with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS<\/a>) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL<\/a>) are working on field trials and genetic studies that could one day double the yields of sorghum, which is one of the world’s most important sources of food, animal feed and biofuel.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n\u00a0The efforts follow recent discoveries by ARS scientist\u00a0Zhanguo Xin<\/a>, who is based in Lubbock, Texas, and\u00a0Doreen Ware<\/a>, who is also with ARS and is an adjunct professor at CSHL, showing how a basic genetic change in sorghum can double its yield of grain.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTheir findings, spelled out in a series of papers, are based on years of research by scientists with ARS and CSHL that initially focused on a search for the genetic underpinnings of high yielding strains of sorghum that were first developed by Xin at the\u00a0ARS Cropping Systems Research Laboratory\u00a0<\/a>in Lubbock. They also lay out a potential strategy for increasing the yields not only of sorghum but of other grain crops, such as corn, wheat and rice.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nSorghum is drought tolerant, is an important crop for farmers worldwide and increasing production is considered a key to addressing the threat of food shortages in the years ahead with changing climates, growing populations overseas and the loss of arable land in many parts of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSorghum grain is produced in clusters of flowers and the plant has two types of flowers, one type that produces grain and another that does not.\u00a0The researchers have shown in a series of published reports that mutating a key gene in sorghum inhibits production of a hormone, known as jasmonic acid, and that plants with reduced levels generate more of the fertile type of flowers — and more grain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTheir results show that the gene, known as MSD1, is a major regulator of a cascading series of events along a genetic pathway that controls the production of jasmonic acid, particularly during flower development. They identified the role of MSD1 in a paper published last year in\u00a0Nature Communications<\/em>. Their subsequent papers in the\u00a0International Journal of Molecular Sciences<\/em>\u00a0show that genes they have identified as MSD2 and MSD3 also play important roles further along in the genetic pathway and that mutating of any one of the three genes causes a similar increase in grain yield. Their most recent paper can be found\u00a0here.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

\nXin and his colleagues are conducting field trials to see if the genes they have found could be used by breeders to improve yields in commercial varieties of sorghum.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe\u00a0Agricultural Research Service<\/a>\u00a0is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief scientific in-house research agency. Daily, ARS focuses on solutions to agricultural problems affecting America. Each dollar invested in agricultural research results in $20 of economic impact.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doubling sorghum yields may now seem a pipe dream, but recent genetic research may make that goal a reality.\u00a0 And reasonably soon as well. This is especially relevant in tropical regions where achieving high sorghum yields is constrained by less suitable varieties as well as weather conditions. See below for a recent USDA publicity announcement. 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