Example sentences for: sorghum

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  • Maize and sorghum diverged approximately 15-20 million years ago and are considered closely related [ 18 ] . This is reflected by the degree of synteny between maize and sorghum [ 19 ] and the high degree of DNA sequence homology of coding regions between the two species [ 20 ] . In addition, brown midrib mutants exist in sorghum [ 21 ] , making a study on the relationship between cell wall composition of sorghum and flowering directly comparable to the maize study.

  • The content and composition of the cell wall polymer lignin is also altered in the sorghum bmr mutants [ 21 ] . The bmr6 mutation was shown to result in an accumulation of coniferaldehyde [ 22 ] and sinapaldehyde [ 23 ] and seems to be most similar to the maize bm1 mutant [ 24 ] . The bmr12 and bmr18 mutants are allelic [ 25 ] . These mutants have lignin with lower amounts of syringyl residues.

  • Sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor (L.)

  • Furthermore, the incorporation specific bmr mutations in sorghum breeding programs may be of use for the manipulation of flowering time.

  • In this study the sorghum bmr mutants are compared to their wild-type counterparts in terms of their flowering dynamics.


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