Xiaoyuan Wu

TL;DR: In this paper, a pan-genome of 44,079 gene families with 222.6 mb of new sequence identified was generated for the sorghum primary gene pool, and the distribution of these variations was influenced by variation of recombination rate and transposable element content across the genome.

TL;DR: The results imply that selection for Dry gene mutations was a major step leading to the origin of sweet sorghum, and fine-tuning its regulatory network could provide a molecular tool to control crop stem texture.

TL;DR: SorGSD is a comprehensive web-portal providing a database of large-scale genome variation across all racial types of cultivated sorghum and wild relatives and can serve as a bioinformatics platform for a range of genomics and molecular breeding activities for sorghums and for other C4 grasses.

TL;DR: The importance and potential of the multi-purpose crop sorghum in global food security have not yet been fully exploited, and the integration of the state-of-the-art genomics and high-throughput technologies into breeding practice is required as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The monocot C4 model crop Sorghum bicolor is explored for a holistic picture of SAG profiles by RNA-seq, and the candidate orthologues of the known important senescence transcription factors showed “SAG” expression patterns, implicating their possible roles in regulating sorghum leafsenescence.