Sorghum

"In highly tolerant varieties that differ in their sensitivity to infection in sorghum, the resistance response appears to be controlled by several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that account for a significant portion of the resistance phenotype." What does ...

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... looked at methods to screen overall plant performance that could be used in breeding programmes. One recent project investigated two species of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor and S. sudanense) represented by 21 accessions. Although increasing sodium chloride concentrations significantly reduced all ...

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... classified as othologs or ancient homoeologs.The median synonymous substution rate of all gene pairs in a syntenic block between maize and sorghum can be used to classify syntenic blocks of 12 or more genes unambiguously as orthologs or homoeologs,however." The title of the paper is ...

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... back to the ground state. So why is it that intact chloroplasts fluoresce (as in http://www.photosynthesisresearch.org/images/Sorghum%20MSBS.jpg )? Thanks in advance for your help! Aidan

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... This is because the calculations were based on FAO data which included fermented beverages and estimates of beer produced locally from sorghum, millet and other agricultural products." In any case if you look at the alcohol consumption map at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alcohol_consumption_per_capita_world_map.PNG) ...

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