Tremendous gaps remain in our understanding of the valuable traits contained in sorghum genetic resources. Advances in genomics, targeted mutagenesis, reverse genetics and whole-genome DNA sequencing ...

Purdue University food science professor Bruce Hamaker has found that each protein body in a single sorghum seed is surrounded by a tough inner protein wall. It takes stomach enzymes longer to break ...

Half a billion of the world’s poorest people rely on the cereal sorghum to feed themselves and their stock. It’s a crop exquisitely adapted to heat and drought, which explains its popularity ...