Claim · model-written summary
Landrace sorghum accessions in the USDA germplasm collection are useful for breeding cover crops and biofuel feedstocks because of their great height and biomass production.
- Material
- landrace sorghum accessions in the USDA germplasm collectione7
- Outcome
- breeding cover crop and biofuel feedstockse7
- Qualifier
- great height and biomass productione7
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Verbatim
e0“Phenotypes of sorghum species (Sorghum sp.) have characteristics making them valuable summer annual cover crops”
e7“landrace sorghum accessions in the USDA germplasm collection are useful for breeding cover crop and biofuel feedstocks, due to their great height and biomass production”
Title
Sorghum Accessions for Use as Cover Crops and Biofuel Feedstocks
Abram Jared Bicksler; John B Masiunas Journal of Agricultural Studies 2015. doi:10.5296/jas.v3i2.8114
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Multi-stemmed sorghum accessions clustered away from the bulk of the USDA sorghum accessions.
- Observation The sorghum accessions clustered into three subgroups.
- Observation The first two canonical variates accounted for 86% of among-accession variability in sorghum.
- Observation Unmown tiller number, regrowth tiller number and regrowth biomass best discriminated between sorghum accessions.
- Recommendation Multi-stemmed sorghum accessions are useful for breeding improved summer annual cover crops.
- Observation Propensity to lodging and poor germination are problems of sorghum accessions that need attention.
- Recommendation Crosses between USDA landraces and multi-stemmed accessions could lead to a sorghum cover crop and biofuel plant with great biomass, height and regrowth.
- Recommendation Sorghum regrowth potential needs improvement through selection.