295-6 Sorghum: The Gluten-Free, Non-GMO, Climate Resilient Cereal for the 21st Century.

See more from this Division: C09 Biomedical, Health-Beneficial & Nutritionally Enhanced Plants
See more from this Session: Symposium--Markers and Strategies for Biofortification Breeding
Tuesday, November 4, 2014: 10:00 AM
Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Seaview C
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Stephen Kresovich1, Davina Rhodes2, Nadia Shakoor2 and Richard E. Boyles3, (1)Clemson University, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
(2)University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
(3)Clemson University, Clemson, SC
The genetic control of crop and grain quality has been a critical goal in breeding programs since their inception in the early 20th century.  With increasing interest in global food security, more recent efforts in crop biofortification have moved to the forefront of improvement programs, particularly in Africa and Southern Asia.  Sorghum, a robust crop of African origin, now benefits from its innate level of diversity coupled with an improved understand of its genome to target genes and affect traits of importance contributing to quality characteristics.  To elucidate the current state of progress for sorghum, three brief case studies are presented to establish where we are with our understanding of the breadth of quality traits and their associated genetic bases.  Our immediate goals are to quantify the type and amount of useful variation for each compositional component, to understand its control, and to support breeding efforts through making the source germplasm available worldwide and optimizing products for the ultimate stakeholders.
See more from this Division: C09 Biomedical, Health-Beneficial & Nutritionally Enhanced Plants
See more from this Session: Symposium--Markers and Strategies for Biofortification Breeding
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