Beschreibung:
Sorghum is one of the hardiest crop plants in modern agriculture and also one of the most versatile. Its seeds provide calorie for food and feed, stalks for building and industrial materials and its juice for syrup. This book provides an in-depth review of the cutting-edge knowledge in sorghum genetics and its applications in sorghum breeding. Each
Sorghum production.Sorghum germplasm: enhancement and utilization. Wild sorghum. Classical breeding. Genetic diversity. Genetic mapping. Molecular breeding. Breeding for enhanced tolerance to abiotic stress in sorghum. Genetics/mapping of biotic stress in sorghum for applied breeding. High throughput genotyping/mapping. Genetic transformation and breeding. Phenotypic mutant library: potential for gene discovery. Sorghum as a biofuel feedstock.