2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): Sorghum for Bioenergy.
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653-2 Sorghum for Bioenergy.



Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 8:30 AM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 381A
Jeffrey Pedersen, USDA-ARS, USDA-ARS University of Nebraska, 344 Keim Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583-0937, William L. Rooney, Soil & Crop Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, Mailstop 2474, College Station, TX 77843-2474 and Scott Sattler, Grain, Forage and Bioenergy Research Unit, USDA-ARS, 314 Biochemistry Hall, East Campus, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68583
Sorghum is a highly productive crop well suited to the production of biomass for bioenergy conversion. Sorghum is also well suited to serve as a model for other biomass species since it is diploid, annual, genetically well characterized, and cultural production systems are well understood. This presentation will explore types of sorghum available for use as a bioenergy feedstock, as well as utility of specific genes or traits available in sorghum and their effect on conversion of biomass to bioenergy.
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